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PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project


Find the cost of adding a npm dependency to your Node.js project. Compare package install size and publish size over time.

This is useful for inspecting potential dependencies or devDependencies without using up precious disk space or waiting minutes for npm install. This number is easy to detect and is typically very small. The "install size" is the size your hard drive will report after running npm install.

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