Decrease yarn size (21 MB, 171 dependency)?

[nodkz]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
feature

What is the current behavior?
21 MB, 171 dependency

What is the expected behavior?
I don't know cool or not that package manager has so many dependencies.

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Maybe bundle dependencies with tree-shaking?

PS. Trying to add yarn to official node docker image:
nodejs/docker-node#243

[sebmck]

This is easier said than done. We have a 2MB single JavaScript script you can use if you want, that's available here from the releases page. All the dependencies we use are critical or would be worse if we wrote them ourselves. This issue isn't very specific so I'm going to close it.

[rjmunro]

The 2Mb single file solution seems to be some sort of bundle - exactly what this bug is asking for.

[nodkz]

One problem stays:
how to provide CLI from this bundled js in the docker container?

[rjmunro]

It would be good if that download had a shebang line at the top, something like:

#!/usr/bin/env node

Then you could just copy it to /usr/local/bin or a similar folder. But in the absense of that add a file called yarn with content like:

#!/bin/bash
node path/to/yarn.js "$@"

[Daniel15]

We do include a number of files that aren't needed though. I want to clean up what we can at some point, and avoid including things like example files and readmes for third-party modules in our tarballs / installers. Filed #908 for that.