[headcanon]

TIL about cloc! Thank you good sir. It seems as though this is because he had node_modules checked into source control on the frontend part. npm basically likes to download the whole internet when you run npm install, so these stats do not suprise me. Checking in that directory is generally discouraged, but its possible he wanted to avoid adding the node dependency in order to ease installation.

[jsaxton86]

You are correct. Here are the revised numbers after excluding public/scripts/node_modules:

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Language                     files          blank        comment           code
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  PHP                             36            330           1048            597
  Javascript                       9            101             86            362
  SASS                             6              4              4            127
  XML                              1              0              0             18
  CSS                              1              0              0              1
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SUM:                            53            435           1138           1105
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[joshschreuder]

NPM actually encourages you to check the directory in when building something deployable like a website or app: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#Should-I-check-my-node_mo...