The Black Hole Called Node_modules

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The Black Hole Called Node_modules
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Ah, the classic "my app is 845KB but somehow requires a black hole of dependencies." Guy calculates his app size: Vue components (719KB), CSS (34KB), and helper classes (92KB). Seems reasonable at 845KB total. Then he puts his backpack on the scale and BAM – 68GB! That's node_modules for you – where your tiny app becomes a quantum singularity of nested dependencies, 5000 versions of left-pad, and packages you didn't even know existed. It's like going grocery shopping for milk and coming home with the entire dairy farm, three tractors, and a confused cow.

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