Whenever you run `npm install` it generates a local, project specific /node_modules/ directory with literally 10s of thousands of files and folders.
Why?! WHY?!
I understand that javascript is a simple scripting language, missing many features that are baked in to more traditional languages like PHP and friends.
I understand that many node modules are a work in progress, that are updated frequently.
I don’t understand the benefit off having these packages sitting inside each project directory.
I understand that disk space is cheap and it doesn’t really matter.
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