How we shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size by 94%

01-Nov-2024 116
This isn't click bait. We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. It's large not only in terms of GB, but also in terms of sheer volume of code and contributions. We recently crossed the 1,000 monthly active users mark, about 2,500 packages, and ~20million lines of code! The most recent clone I did of the repo clocked in at an astonishing 178GB. .
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