Can we reduce npm package size?

[rxaviers]

• Examples are responsible for 3.7M.
• Temporary dist/.build for another ~1M.

[rxaviers]

Examples are responsible for 3.7M. They are usually helpful for development, but are generally useless in an npm installation. We could remove them from the npm package.

Temporary dist/.build is responsible for another ~1M. We should definitely remove it from npm package and any other distribution.

[jzaefferer]

In a way, examples are part of the documentation, which is useful to include. I don't follow how they end up at 3.7 MB though. Maybe that's nested node_modules that you had locally when you published, and npm just published them along with everything else? If that's the issue, we should definitely exclude those nested node_modules.

[rxaviers]

Jörn, you're correct, just found the culprit examples/app-bower-grunt-requirejs/bower_components. The release script could assert those aren't present.

• Release script to rm any examples node_modules or bower_components.
• Build script to rm temporary dist/.build.

[jzaefferer]

Probably simpler would be adding those to .gitignore (or .npmignore, if necessary).

[rxaviers]

Good point.

[rxaviers]

These files were already in .gitignore and are correctly being ignored by git, but not by npm. It seems to be a npm bug npm/npm#7264.

[jzaefferer]

Can it be worked around using explicit .npmignore?

[rxaviers]

I believe not since the npm-linked issue is about .npmignore too. Anyway, I think it's awful to have to duplicate .gitignore.

[jzaefferer]

Could try to remove the nested .gitignore files and pull everything up into the main one.