DEV Community: Ali Torki

Fast and efficient tool to reduce node_modules size by up to 60%. Ideal for serverless, Docker, and deployment optimization.

Ali Torki — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:48:26 +0000

As JavaScript developers, we all know the notorious pain of the node_modules folder - it's become a gargantuan entity of its own. You clone a simple project, run npm install, and suddenly hundreds of megabytes are consumed. The irony? Most of these files are unnecessary bloat - tests, documentation, and configuration files that never see the light of production. Even with modern package managers like pnpm and Bun, while the situation has marginally improved compared to npm CLI, the fundamental problem persists.

Today, I'm excited to introduce prune-mod - a tool I developed to tackle this exact problem.

Despite being an ultra-lightweight 8.3KB tool, prune-mod can reduce your node_modules size by up to 60% without compromising your application's functionality.

Key features that set this tool apart:

• Intelligent runtime detection: Automatically leverages Bun if available, boosting processing speed by up to 3x
• Dry-run mode for previewing changes before applying them
• Safety-first approach: Never removes critical files like package.json entry points
• Seamless CI/CD and Docker integration for optimizing image sizes

Usage couldn't be simpler:

npx @usex/prune-mod

This tool particularly shines in these scenarios:

• Serverless deployments with strict size limitations (I personally faced this challenge on Cloudflare)
• Docker containers where you need faster uploads and pull times
• Local development when you need to reclaim precious disk space

Real-world impact: On a typical Next.js project, we've seen reductions from 487MB to 193MB - that's 60% smaller with 44% fewer files!

The project is open source, and I welcome contributions, feedback, and suggestions from the community.

GitHub: https://github.com/ali-master/prune-mod

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@usex/prune-mod

I hope this tool proves as valuable to you as it has been for me, reducing daily development friction and accelerating your deployment cycles after every git push.

Let's make our codebases leaner and our deployments faster together!

Fix the IOS 14 Keychain bug in Password fields

Ali Torki — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:15:52 +0000

Since Apple released the IOS v14, The Safari browser in all IOS devices have a problem with the Input type's password which the application crashes when you click on the Password Input. The problem is The Keychain has a critical problem and wants to autofill a user match but will crashes while loading the matches, So I tried so many ways to fix this issue, and I found these solutions that documented in this repository:

Github Repository with Examples

If you have any other solution, please contribute to the repo to tell other programmers how they can fix this huge problem.

PWA Badge

Ali Torki — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:30:27 +0000

The App Badge API allows installed web apps to set an application-wide badge,
shown in an operating-system-specific place associated with the application
(such as the shelf or home screen).

Badges tend to be more user-friendly than notifications and can be updated with
a much higher frequency since they don't interrupt the user. And, because they
don't interrupt the user, they don't need the user's permission.

Keep in mind that to display the Badge count, Your PWA application should be installed on your device.

Possible use cases

Examples of sites that may use this Library includes:

Chat, email, and social apps, to signal that new messages have arrived, or to show the number of unread items.
Productivity apps, to signal that a long-running background task (such as rendering an image or video) has completed.
Games, to signal that a player action is required (e.g., in Chess, when it is the player's turn).

Usage

npm install --save pwa-badge

The Badge API consists of five methods:

isSupported() Check if the User's browser supports the Feature, and returns a boolean value that represents the Status of supporting.
syncSetBadge(unreadCount) Removes app's badge Synchronously. If a value is provided, set the badge to the provided value otherwise, display a plain white dot (or other flags as appropriate to the platform). Setting number to 0 is the same as calling syncClearBadge() or asyncClearBadge().
syncClearBadge() Removes app's badge Synchronously.
asyncSetBadge(unreadCount) This API is the same as syncSetBadge() but returns an empty Promise for error handling.
asyncClearBadge() Removes app's badge Asynchronously and returns an empty Promise for error handling.

`Sync` Set and Clear Badge

import PWABadge from 'pwa-badge';

// Create an Instance
const badge = new PWABadge();

// Set Badge unreadCount
badge.syncSetBadge(1);

// Clear Badge unreadCount
badge.syncClearBadge();

Result:

MacOS
Windows:

`Async` Set and Clear Badge

asyncSetBadge() and asyncClearBadge() return empty promises you can
use for error handling.

import PWABadge from 'pwa-badge';

// Create an Instance
const badge = new PWABadge();

// Set Badge unreadCount
badge
  .asyncSetBadge(1)
  .then(() => {
    // Badge count has shown as well
  })
  .catch((e) => {
    // The Browser not supporting the Badge feature or something went wrong
  });

// Clear Badge unreadCount
badge
  .asyncClearBadge()
  .then(() => {
    // Badge count has disappeared
  })
  .catch((e) => {
    // The Browser not supporting the Badge feature or something went wrong
  });

Check Browser supports the Badge API

TL;DR isSupported() method function is util for informing your users that
this feature supports by their Browser or OS and the pwa-badge library
set and clear the Badge count safely, and you can avoid using
isSupported() before calling the set or clear methods.

import PWABadge from 'pwa-badge';

// Create an Instance
const badge = new PWABadge();

if (badge.isSupported()) {
  // Hoora!, Supports the Badge feature
} else {
  // Does not supports
}

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Github Repo:
https://github.com/ali-master/pwa-badge