# Starve

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Clean and remove unnecessary files and folders from `node_modules`

## Why

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The industry is moving towards serverless architecure, where the size of your
package is very important for performance. This tool makes your lambda
functions' packages significantly smaller.

## What

`starve` is a very simple tool to remove unnecessary files and folders
from `node_modules`, such as markdown, typescript source files, licenses etc.

## Using

```bash
npx starve
```

## How we decide what files to remove

We are running this command periodically to see unique file extension in
`node_modules`, try removing **unnecessary** files and test each attempt.

```bash
find node_modules -type f | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/\.([^.\/]+)$/' | sort -u
```