Firestore includes two copies of grpc in node_modules which are both very large

[lewchuk]

The node_modules for a project containing only firestore as it's dependency are quite large (~150MB depending on exact OS/configuration). Most of this comes from the grpc dependency which is about 50MB and most unfortunately is included twice. Once at the top level node_modules/grpc and once within the node_modules for firestore ./node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/node_modules/grpc.

Is there any way to only include grpc once when installed? Having this massive dependency makes deploying packages with firestore difficult where the size of the deployment package is constrained.

Environment details

• OS: mac osx and linux (node 6.10.3 docker image)
• Node.js version: 6.10
• npm version: npm 3.10.10 and yarn 1.3.2
• @google-cloud/firestore version: 0.10.0 and 0.10.1

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a package.json file with a single dependency: "@google-cloud/firestore": "^0.10.1"
2. Run yarn install --production or npm install --production
3. run find . -name grpc and note the two copies of grpc.

[schmidt-sebastian]

Thank you for reporting this. We will look at removing one of these dependencies.

[schmidt-sebastian]

Note that this is due to the recent change we made to address GRPC connection issues. The work-around pegged our local GRPC version to 1.7.1. The latest 1.7.x GRPC version is however 1.7.3 - so you will see both included.

We have already relaxed the strict dependency on 1.7.1 in master, but have yet to release it (#92). I will prepare a release for this by the end of the week.

[lewchuk]

@schmidt-sebastian excellent news! I look forward to that release.

[schmidt-sebastian]

v0.11.0 was just released and should be on NPM momentarily.