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NodeJS modules shrink

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I'm a newbie in NodeJS and I'm not really familiar with all this thing of "npm". I mean, I didn't expect that just for one "npm install" I will get 10Mb of 30 different folders.  After a bunch of minutes when I processed this fact, I just realize that there are a lot of junk in those folders. They are not "compiled", let's call it this way... There are "readme" files, source files, test scripts, example applications, docs and so on!!! Many of modules has duplications of another modules inside their folders. Like “inherits”, “core-util-is”, “tedious” etc. Modules inside modules, Karl! And inside them – another modules, that already exist in other modules in the project. Whaaaaat???!!! There is an example of one of them - I'm in "node_modules" and in "bl" folder, but there is another "node_modules" folder inside it as well as "test", "readme" and all this junk here. And all of