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# Prune The Excess From node_modules
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The `node_modules` directory, which is part of every JavaScript project, is
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infamously heavy. It is a massive directory of all your project's dependencies
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and those dependencies' dependencies.
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The size of `node_modules` can become a problem on CI build servers with
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limited disk space. You can significantly reduce the size of `node_modules` by
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pruning away all the excess files that aren't needed during builds like
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markdown files, typescript source files, etc.
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Include the [`node-prune`](https://github.com/tj/node-prune) binary as part of
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your build pipeline to handle this.
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```bash
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$ node-prune /path/to/node_modules
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```
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In one instance, I saw a reduction from 400MB to 11MB in the `node_modules`
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directory size.
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