npx cdk8s-cli init typescript-app produces a 300MB directory

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npx cdk8s-cli init typescript-app produces a 300MB directory #973

Open spion opened 2 years ago

spion commented 2 years ago

Description of the bug:

Running `npx cdk8s-cli init typescript-app produces a 300MB sized directory, of which about 180MB are 3 copies of typescript - the toplevel typescript, the one in jsii and the one in jisii-rosetta.

Few questions come to mind:

Why do we need jsii in a typescript app?
Why aren't the versions better aligned?
How can we reduce this?

Reproduction Steps:

npx cdk8s-cli init typescript-app
du -sh

Error Log:

278MB

Environment:

Framework Version: whatever is the current default (cdk8s-cli is 2.0.107 at the time of this writing)
OS: Ubuntu Linux 22.04

This is :bug: Bug Report

iliapolo commented 2 years ago

Hi @spion. Thanks for this! Let us have a look and we'll provide some details. I'm carefully assuming we can indeed better align the versions and reduce the size.

spion commented 1 year ago

This is still an issue, current size is 280MB. The 3 copies of typescript are still there. jsii is still there even though a purely typescript app doesn't need any translation to other languages

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spion commented 1 month ago

Still a problem: current size 284MB. If anything, the size is slowly growing.

This is also the primary reason why I'm currently recommending against using cdk8s (typescript version) whenever asked about it. The amount of npm package churn (via e.g. vulnerability reports and necessary updates and similar) and the size of the surface area quickly negatively offsets quite a bit of the benefits of nicer infrastructure as code.