"One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly..." now this is how a great programming story should start :-)
Please provide an example of a Node.js project which downloads 500MB of deps.
- https://github.com/shockone/black-screen
And there are hundreds of them, specially if they require Babel which by itself requires a significant amount of disk space, but since you were lazy to find these projects by yourself, I will be lazy too and just list three of them, I will leave the rest to your imagination.