[toomanybeersies]

The NodeJS alpine base image is only 40 MB.

[lolive]

Then you _npm install_ something, and BOOOM! 600MB !

[Defman]

You can use multi-stage builds [1] so your result image would be as small as possible by just copying the compiled JS from the build stage.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...

[vbezhenar]

You still need to download hundreds of megabytes of packages, unpack those into gigabyte of storage, "compile" it into a final form.

Also you need to keep those huge images, if you want to have any reasonable caching. Otherwise builds will take forever.

[hinkley]

Compiled JavaScript?

[veyh]

Bundled. With esbuild, for example.

[Defman]

My bad, I meant "bundled".