Vega lite release package is humongous

[nyurik]

The node_modules/vega-lite dir is 34.1 MB! For comparison, Vega is 2.1MB, and most other well known packages are a tiny fraction of that. Recently, github reduced the size of the release files, which means I can no longer publish release packages that contain the entire node_modules. BTW, this also means that anyone using vega lite lib has to download the whole thing when installing it, even though most of the code is just a few hundred KB.

[domoritz]

I think a lot of it will be dev dependencies. What's the size when you exclude those?

[nyurik]

Dev Regular dependencies are only 319KB, plus whichever modules shared by other modules - those would be in the root node_modules/ dir.

[nyurik]

Correction: there are no dev dependencies here - only production dependencies. My code lists vega-lite as a regular dependency, so when I do npm install, the vega-lite lib gets added to node_modules, with all of its production dependencies.