Laravel project size way too big

The node_modulea and the vendor folder should not be pushed to the server. Those will be downloaded on the server, your deployment script should have the command you mentioned above.

Yeah, I don't copy them over - but once I run the command above aswell as 'npm install' - it's total size is around 200mb

@jjk but you run the command on the server not locally. So why is it a problem if that directory is that big? You obviously have a lot of dependencies.

Plus the vendor will of course will be big because of the packages. But you don't push those to the repository nor to your server.

The problem is, the whole project after installment is 200mbs. I don't have any extra dependencies other than default laravel + phpmailer and vue.js + dev dependencies that I don't install over.

Here's my package.json:

{
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "npm run development",
        "development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
        "watch": "npm run development -- --watch",
        "watch-poll": "npm run watch -- --watch-poll",
        "hot": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
        "prod": "npm run production",
        "production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --no-progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "axios": "^0.19",
        "cross-env": "^5.1",
        "laravel-mix": "^4.0.7",
        "lodash": "^4.17.13",
        "resolve-url-loader": "^2.3.1",
        "sass": "^1.15.2",
        "sass-loader": "^7.1.0",
        "vue-template-compiler": "^2.6.10"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "node-sass": "^4.13.0",
        "vue": "^2.6.10"
    }
}

And my composer.json:

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "type": "project",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": [
        "framework",
        "laravel"
    ],
    "license": "MIT",
    "require": {
        "php": "^7.2",
        "fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.4",
        "laravel/framework": "^6.2",
        "laravel/tinker": "^1.0",
        "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.1"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "facade/ignition": "^1.4",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
        "nunomaduro/collision": "^3.0",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.0"
    },
    "config": {
        "optimize-autoloader": true,
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true
    },
    "extra": {
        "laravel": {
            "dont-discover": []
        }
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\": "app/"
        },
        "classmap": [
            "database/seeds",
            "database/factories"
        ]
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Tests\": "tests/"
        }
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "prefer-stable": true,
    "scripts": {
        "post-autoload-dump": [
            "Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
            "@php artisan package:discover --ansi"
        ],
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "@php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "@php artisan key:generate --ansi"
        ]
    }
}```

@jjk and you know that all of them have their own dependencies right? :)

Yes, I do - but my point is - how much does laravel + vue.js + required essentials weight in total? I was hoping it's not 200mbs.

I don't know the actual size, plus that one might change every single day as new releases are being published from all the libraries.

Is the size really a problem? Digital Ocean for example gives you 25GB of space for 5$ a month, as far as I remember.

Well, my customer is complaining - that's about it really.

Guess he'll have to deal with it.