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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"TypeScript has doubled in size since v2.0.0 - now 35 MB","articleBody":"**Search Terms:** install size mb\r\n\r\n**Expected behavior:**\r\nI expected typescript to be relatively small since it has zero dependencies so there is no additional bloat from `package.json` or `README.md` files included with dependencies.\r\n\r\n [![install size](https://packagephobia.now.sh/badge?p=typescript@2.0.0)](https://packagephobia.now.sh/result?p=typescript@2.0.0) `typescript@2.0.0` is about 17 MB, not too bad.\r\n\r\n**Actual behavior:**\r\n\r\n[![install size](https://packagephobia.now.sh/badge?p=typescript@2.9.0-dev.20180411)](https://packagephobia.now.sh/result?p=typescript@2.9.0-dev.20180411) `typescript@2.9.0-dev.20180411` is about 35 MB - double the size in about 2 years \r\n\r\nI realize that there are no stated goals of install size, however it is worth considering because...how is TypeScript getting so big so fast? 😕 \r\n\r\nThis might inhibit new users from coming on board when their code base might be a few kB with plain JS and adding TS would make it 35 MB.\r\n\r\n**Steps to reproduce**\r\n```\r\nmkdir ts2.0\r\ncd ts2.0\r\nnpm init -y\r\nnpm install --save-dev typescript@2.0.0\r\ncd ..\r\nmkdir ts2.9\r\ncd ts2.9\r\nnpm init -y\r\nnpm install --save-dev typescript@2.9.0-dev.20180411\r\ncd ..\r\ndu -sh ts2.0 # 17M\r\ndu -sh ts2.9 # 35M\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/styfle","@type":"Person","name":"styfle"},"datePublished":"2018-04-11T15:48:10.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":22},"url":"https://github.com/23339/TypeScript/issues/23339"}