incredibly huge package size (687MB)

[xr0master]

Hi. The package size is greater than the size of all other packages in the sum for each project.

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 10.6.0

Platform: macOS

[REQUIRED] Test case

du -sh node_modules/* | sort -hr

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[yuchenshi]

Have you tried npm install firebase-tools --only=prod? That will exclude the dev dependencies.

[xr0master]

@yuchenshi the --only=prod will exclude all dev dependencies of the project.

[bkendall]

That's what npm install should be doing anyway. It's because of the shrinkwrap file (I think) that it's installing the dev dependencies as well. To use the CLI (or the CLI as a module), the dev dependencies aren't required in the slightest.

npm actually has an open issue discussing this, though it's not exactly active. Maybe worth someone from our side tilting at npm to see if it can be addressed.

[bkendall]

(but, unfortunately, outside some really, really hacky stuff on our end, this is really an npm issue)

[bkendall]

https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4323 is the issue I should have linked. That's the one with actual activity.

[haines]

Perhaps it would be possible to have a prepublishOnly script that strips the dev dependencies from npm-shrinkwrap.json as a workaround?

[ai]

@haines for my projects (PostCSS, Browserslist) I use clean-publish to cut development configs during the release.

[akauppi]

@xr0master For reproducibility, may I suggest you add to the description the way you installed firebase-tools.

I am using

yarn global add --ignore-optional firebase-tools@${FIREBASE_TOOLS_VERSION} \
  && yarn cache clean

..within a Dockerfile, and it provides no problems (node_modules/* is 99.8MB). I think the official guidance was using yarn at the time I have read it.

[xr0master]

@akauppi npm i firebase-tools --save-dev

[bkendall]

I gave up waiting for npm to fix their issues and am using clean-publish to do this now. So, thanks for the tip to that @ai (nice username)

Fixed by #5023

[xr0master]

before after

Still a bit thick, but 4 times smaller! Great job, thanks a lot @bkendall.

[bkendall]

GASP! I had the thought of "I wonder what's bloating that so" and discovered that googleapis is listed as a dependency but really is a dev dependency... and it's 111MB.