node_modules size more then 100mo

[akselmi]

Hello,
the size of node-rdkafka is about 167.9 Mo inside node_modules, i looked into it and i found that

node_modules/node-rdkafka/deps = 135.4 Mo
node_modules/node-rdkafka/build/deps/librdkafka.a = 15.1 mo
node_modules/node-rdkafka/build/deps/librdkafka.a = 5.7 mo

seems like removing them have no impact, everything work fine.
is it possible please to make sure to delete them ?

[tatianajiselle]

if you are containerizing your project, you can manually delete these libraries in your dockerfile after a npm install:

RUN rm -rf /full/path

[Elsvent]

Per investigate
`
bash-5.0# du -h -d 1

11.3M ./src-cpp

212.0K ./win32

59.3M ./src

76.0K ./debian

2.1M ./tests

1.7M ./packaging

160.1M ./examples

148.0K ./mklove

235.6M .

bash-5.0# pwd

/node_modules/node-rdkafka/deps/librdkafka
`
example take 160 M
Just a reference for you

[raymcdermott]

My experience today:

$ du -sm node-rdkafka # -m reports size in Mb
432     node-rdkafka
$ cd node-rdkafka
du -sm * | sort -rn       
366     deps
66      build # <--------------------------- Actually used by nodejs

Removing build stopped the runtime from working.

Removing deps has no effect on the runtime.

Would be great to clean up after the build in your package.json scripts

[akaustel]

The issue is not really the package size, but the build script does not clean up after building on installation. It seems the .node library actually used is ~0.5MB, while unnecessary build deps are ~470MB.

# du -hd1 node_modules/node-rdkafka/
72K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/ci
136K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/e2e
52K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/util
244K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/lib
469M	node_modules/node-rdkafka/deps
71M	node_modules/node-rdkafka/build
444K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/src
100K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/examples
76K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/bench
212K	node_modules/node-rdkafka/test
542M	node_modules/node-rdkafka/

Would it make sense to clean this?