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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by toomanybeersies on Sunday July 31, 2022 @02:30AM (#32293688)
The NodeJS alpine base image is only 40 MB.
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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by lolive on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:00AM (#32293815)
Then you _npm install_ something, and BOOOM! 600MB !
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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by Defman on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:09AM (#32293852)
You can use multi-stage builds [1] so your result image would be as small as possible by just copying the compiled JS from the build stage.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...

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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by vbezhenar on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:06AM (#32294527)
You still need to download hundreds of megabytes of packages, unpack those into gigabyte of storage, "compile" it into a final form.

Also you need to keep those huge images, if you want to have any reasonable caching. Otherwise builds will take forever.

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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by hinkley on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:17AM (#32294154)
Compiled JavaScript?
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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by veyh on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:17AM (#32294572)
Bundled. With esbuild, for example.
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Re:The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems by Defman on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:56AM (#32303866)
My bad, I meant "bundled".
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