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A simple `find . -name '*.js' | xargs wc -l` on the marketplace repository at https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace reads about 72K LOC. About half of that is vendor scripts, such as jQuery.

The 500M figure is quite obviously nonsense. Even if one adds the source of every tool involved, including the browsers used to display the site, it would be difficult to get to 500M. For example, Chrome is ~5M LOC, depending on comments/version.

500M bytes, maybe? Including all the artwork, and rows of database gunk and XML propping it up?

I can easily believe some overflunky seeing 500M something and not really get what was being measured. I'd believe that more readily than 500MSLOC of actual code.

That is the FRONT end which is open-source. Made by different people.

The BACK end is closed source, made by CGI and others.

Of course, but I would be shocked if the backend was more than even 3-5 million lines.

The back end is the entire API.

But I tend to agree the size claimed has to be way off.

They might be including database rows as "code" who knows.

That code looks really familiar. Strangely enough, it was for another healthcare application and written by consultants.