DZdz0ny·Nov 23, 2017
He went meta recently. Made node_modules cleaner in golang https://github.com/tj/node-prune :D
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node-prune
Remove unnecessary files from node_modules (.md, .ts, ...)
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Remove unnecessary files from node_modules (.md, .ts, ...)
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| Nov 19, 00:00 | 2017-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-19 06:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Nov 19, 06:00 | 2017-11-19 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-19 12:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 19, 12:00 | 2017-11-19 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-19 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19, 18:00 | 2017-11-19 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20, 00:00 | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-20 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20, 06:00 | 2017-11-20 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-20 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20, 12:00 | 2017-11-20 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-20 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20, 18:00 | 2017-11-20 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21, 00:00 | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-21 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21, 06:00 | 2017-11-21 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-21 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21, 12:00 | 2017-11-21 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-21 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21, 18:00 | 2017-11-21 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 00:00 | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-22 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 06:00 | 2017-11-22 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-22 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 12:00 | 2017-11-22 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-22 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 18:00 | 2017-11-22 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23, 00:00 | 2017-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-23 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23, 06:00 | 2017-11-23 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-23 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23, 12:00 | 2017-11-23 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-23 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourceshttps://github.com/tj/node-prune/blob/20703f18e9a7996683f1b8...:
// Copied from yarn (mostly).
I infer that TJ used `yarn autoclean` as a starting point for this.
In Show HN: Node.js node_modules file pruninghttps://github.com/tj/node-prune/blob/master/prune.go#L57
Doesn't this also result in .d.ts files being removed? These are type declaration files (Kinda like C's .h files) that provide types for you without the file size overhead of the full TypeScript source.
In Show HN: Node.js node_modules file pruningRather than two giant 440px high images consisting of tiny text in the readme I'd quite love to read exactly what it does and why. Does it prune files in modules that are not needed? If so what heuristics does it use to prune files? Or does it prune modules that are not needed?
Reading the code[1] it appears to delete directories and extensions based on a blacklist.
1. https://github.com/tj/node-prune/blob/master/prune.go#L15-L5...
In Show HN: Node.js node_modules file pruningShow HN: Node.js node_modules file pruning
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