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Is it possible to load icons as a dev dependency instead of a regular dependency?
See original GitHub issueHappy new year 😊
I was checking my node_modules size and I realized that this module has a 97 MB dependency on the material design icons.
I checked the docs for icons-mdi, which give the example using --save-dev.
Why does this module include the icons as a regular dependency instead of as a dev dependency?
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In case it’s helpful to anyone coming to this issue from Google, here’s the one-liner I used to delete all the unnecessary icons, freeing up about 88 MB of space:
find ../node_modules/@iconify/icons-mdi -maxdepth 1 ! -name "play-circle*" ! -name "pause-circle*" ! -name "skip-previous*" ! -name "skip-next*" ! -name "fast-forward*" ! -name "rewind*" ! -name "volume-high*" ! -name "volume-mute" ! -name "repeat*" -deleteOk, that’s what I didn’t understand. If the library has to be installed, I guess I’ll write a bash script to delete the unnecessary icons.
Thanks for the response.