Aside from the other tips, have you considered using a filesystem that supports transparent compression? I have no idea what system you are deploying to, but NTFS, ZFS and Btrfs support this.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Jan Flyborg <jan.flyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there are any plans to change the module system of > nodejs to make it able to import modules from a single archive (much like > Java's jar which actually is a zip in disguise). > > We are planning on deploying code on a space constrained device and since > our node_module folder is very large, we are looking for ways to reduce its > size. We can of course address this with normal minification, but if a > jar-like archive format were available that would probably also help us a > lot. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Cheers > //Jan Flyborg > > > > > -- > > Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file- > moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List- > Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/nodejs/CACrfS1AcaqsM2EjicTtsJMxC3PG0wxCaE%3DDSvK4JCvCGM%2BrWVA% > 40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CACrfS1AcaqsM2EjicTtsJMxC3PG0wxCaE%3DDSvK4JCvCGM%2BrWVA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAPJ5V2Yy_oNhwz%2BFfqETPA17sK46%2BLvZ_zS8JNarWnM0pdgujw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
