Part of my current project has a node_modules folder that is 400MB and contains 37853 files. Seeing as updating a dependency can cause a cascading effect that c

Part of my current project has a node_modules folder that is 400MB and contains 37853 files. Seeing as updating a dependency can cause a cascading effect that can touch a lot of different files, it's not a good idea to store them in git. It's akin to the reason you don't store binary files in git. If installs are too slow, switch to a caching yarn/npm mirror. Cloudflare has one. Or run a local caching proxy for your team.