Seriously, the npm devs mist have never worked on a system with less than 1tb disk

npm is bloat?
how?
retrieve packages is the package manager jobs.
seriously... this is not npm fault.

@CSaratakij
1) this is (partially) a joke
2) npm could easily maintain a global package cache and symlink to node_modules, saving vast amounts of disk space (since you don't need more than one copy of a particular version of a large package).
tl;dr doing `install *` is a meme but npm is still bad for other reasons

@er1n okay then.

just fyi if you didn't know already tier are package managers that do what you describe, they will use a local cache if it's available otherwise will from registry. i believe yarn, ied, and pnpm