[cutler]

Just tried this and the install size is 796Mb of which 513Mb is node modules. The initialised git repo is a whopping 274Mb - WTF? I re-initialised git, excluding node_modules and it's now 244k. I recommend the author leaves `git init` to the user.

[lvh]

Is your criticism that it downloads to many packages, or just that they're (I agree, incorrectly) being added to the git repo? Because if you want to create your own minimal setup, shadow-cljs' tutorial will help you do that: but OPs criticism was that there's no easy starting point that has all the bells and whistles, so yeah, this has a lot of bells and whistles :-)