Huge number of files generated for every Angular project

Question

I wanted to start a simple hello world app for Angular.

When I followed the instructions in the official quickstart the installation created 32,000 files in my proje

Answer 1

Creating a new project with angular cli recently and the node_modules folder was 270 mb, so yes this is normal but I'm sure most new devs to the angular world question this and is valid. For a simple new project it would make sense to pare the dependencies down maybe a bit;) Not knowing what all the packages depend on can be a bit unnerving especially to new devs trying the cli out for the first time. Add to the fact most basic tutorials don't discuss the deployment settings to get the exported files only needed. I don't believe even the tutorial offered on the angular official website talks about how to deploy the simple project.