Ohai,

today, when I run "npm i" in Foreman core, it looks roughly like this:

22:30:38 added 1616 packages from 759 contributors and audited 1640 packages in 137.236s
22:31:08 added 4250 packages from 2660 contributors in 726.496s

Yes, two outputs, as the second one is coming from script/npm-fix-foreman-stories.sh which is executed as the postinstall step in our package.json.

This is slowing down various steps where we always start from a fresh checkout, and is IMHO improvable.

See https://community.theforeman.org/t/speeding-up-debian-package-builds/24957 for a few numbers ;)

My question here is: is there a good way in the JavaScript ecosystem to mark different (dev)Dependencies for different tasks? In the Ruby (and Python) world we can define arbitrary named groups, and then tell "don't install group X" -- I couldn't find anything like that for JavaScript? :(