Node Modules: The Backpack That Ate Your Hard Drive

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Node Modules: The Backpack That Ate Your Hard Drive
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Writing a tiny 50KB app in Node.js that somehow requires hauling around 12GB of node_modules is the modern equivalent of bringing a nuclear warhead to a knife fight. Nothing says "efficient development" like needing an extra hard drive just to store your dependencies. And yet we all just accept this madness like it's completely normal. "Yeah, I'm just importing this tiny utility that needs 237 other packages to calculate if a number is odd."

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