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npm does a decent enough job deduping shared packages. The reason is different packages consume different versions of things. Java only lets you have a single v
by JaRail 11y ago
npm does a decent enough job deduping shared packages. The reason is different packages consume different versions of things. Java only lets you have a single version of a package. If the API changes, it can be a pain when your dependencies were written for different versions. That slows adoption since you have to wait until everyone you depend on has updated first.
- david-given 11y agoAre you thinking of the new flat-tree npm? Because in my 1.3.10 installation, I see this: $ find node_modules/ -type f | wc -l 56278 $ find node_modules/ -type f | xargs md5sum | gawk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l 8545 That's a lot of duplicate files.