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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 00:16:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Hey folks, can you help me out with a little something: trying to come up with a good number of files limit for a file scan (for Kitten so you don’t hit heap memory limits if you run it from the wrong directory by mistake) and I’d love some statistics from real JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js projects of the number of files in them (excluding .git and node_modules).

   Would you be kind enough to run the following command in Terminal in your largest projects and let me know what number your get (along with a short description of the project):

   find . \( -name "node_modules" -o -name ".git" \) -prune -o -print | wc -l

   Thank you :)

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #NodeJS #web #dev #stats #helpWanted

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:40:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • csolisr

     @csolisr Thanks, Carlos :)

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     csolisr (csolisr@hub.azkware.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:40:42 JST csolisr

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     In the development version of Friendica, the number is 737968 items
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:42:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Joost

     @Jhelberg Haha, thanks :)

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     Joost (jhelberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:42:57 JST Joost

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     @aral 0

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:46:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • csolisr

     @csolisr Curious about how they could have so many files, I just cloned the develop branch and I’m getting 4,067 files – which sounds way more plausible. Are you sure you didn’t run the command on your main projects or home folder? :)

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     Fynn Ellie Be (mvsde@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 15:33:09 JST Fynn Ellie Be

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     @aral I’ve got 1975 in the largest single project and 3382 in a monorepo with multiple Node.js projects.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 15:33:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fynn Ellie Be

     @mvsde Thank you :)