React app has over 240mb of files

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I just started to learn react. When I typed
npx create-react-app myapp,
I saw that my project was around 250mb. Is this normal?

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Hello

Yes, you will need lots of space for React projects.

Even single page applications eat up a few hundred MB minimum.

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That is just all the dependencies. The final build will not be that size (at least code-wise).

I would suggest using Vite instead of CRA. It is much faster and smaller.

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Thanks, Iā€™m going to consider using Vite in the future

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Yes, almost all of that is node_modules which includes tooling/deps that will not be shipped to end users in the browser.

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