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Which is of very little importance in most cases, because modern bundlers incorporate treeshaking in order to filter out all the unused code when you're building a production application
Edit: okay well appearently that's controversial for some reason
node_modules might take a lot of space on a dev machine, but as op said, only the files used are packed into web artifacts that are deployed.
So 12gbs can end up as 10mb, arbitrary number to highlight significance of tree shaking.
this assumes the dev is smart enough to do --save-dev