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Kangin Choi
4,174 Pointsnpm install
when I execute the command npm install, for some reason, workspace installs many unnecessary node_moduels. You can see what have been installed in the link below:
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Neil McPartlin
14,662 PointsI clicked the link and found that Kangin has the same number of packages as me which is 35 but there is a good reason for this. We are not only installing 2 packages 'mocha' and 'uglify.js', but each of these have their own dependencies too.
Look at both of these links and part way down on the right, those (sub) dependencies are listed.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mocha
https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglify-js
It's true that at the time of writing, those sub dependencies add up to just 12 but note that both have had major releases in the past 2 years since this video was made, so dependencies are either no longer required or have been incorporated into the main package.
Matthew Garza
26,312 PointsI didn't click on your link but, i think i had the same problem. My workspaces kept crashing because there was too many node modules. So I asked one of the treehouse team members and they told me to just delete the unwanted modules.