Laravel Mix编译资产后，仍然需要node_modules文件夹吗？

Question

node_modules folder is quite large in term of size. I wonder if we can delete it after Laravel Mix compile everything? Sure, I tried it before (install jquery ) and then delete node_modules folder after Laravel Mix compiled everything. My jquery code still running and there's no error at all. So is it okay?

Answer 1

You should never commit your node_modules folder to git. That would take forever. Just commit package.json and package-lock.json .

However, you wouldn't want to have to re-install them everytime you build your code. I checked a large project and the total size is 310 M . What situation do you have where you can't keep that in place?

To directly answer your question, Laravel will never run code from the node_modules folder, all of the code used from there is compiled into app.js , so it is safe to delete if you had to.

Answer 2

yes, you can remove it after run:

npm run production

after run this command all necessary codes will save in app.js

and when need node_modules you can download them again with :

npm install