Boiler plate project created with create react app is 200MB+, with out us having wrote any code.
Most of the 200MB+ files is in the node_modules folder ( from all the lib it's downloaded). I can prevent re-download by installing most of the modules globally, but the modules still gets copied to the node_modules folder of the active project.
Is there a way to reduce the disk space size of my projects, ie. to have my active project reference the npm global libs directly as opposed to create a copy of the files in the node_modules folder.
What I've found so far:
- 'ejecting' create react app to customized: I didn't like dealing with the mess of dealing with and having to maintain my own ejected version of create react app.
- ways to prevent download: share node.js modules across React apps? (install the lib globally)
