NPM is unexpectedly taking up 10gb of storage on computer

[Marak]

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is crashing.
• npm is producing an incorrect install.
• [x ] npm is doing something I don't understand.
• Other (see below for feature requests):

What's going wrong?

NPM is unexpectedly taking up 10 gigabytes of storage on my computer.

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

Running this command in home directory:

find . -type d -name node_modules ! -wholename '*/node_modules/*' | xargs du -sch

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 5.4.2
• node -v prints: v8.2.1
• npm config get registry prints: https://registry.npmjs.org/
• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?: OS X/macOS

[Klathmon]

Are you installing anything in particular that is causing this issue? Or is this just a complaint about data usage in general?

[ericmccarthy7]

You could always use something like this

[ksmithut]

Steps to reproduce? Is this scanning every sub directory in your directory scanning every project you have on your computer with a node_modules directory?

[Marak]

Thanks @ericmccarthy7, workspaces in yarn seem like right idea.

Most of the space is due to various babel installs on projects each taking 600+mb each.

[Lindsor]

Yeah this is scanning all your modules in all your projects. Everytime you run npm install it downloads all the packages again. This is not an npm issue

[himanshub16]

In tried creating a react-native app. The node_modules directory took about 600 MB