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Prevent npm install from bogging down mac with this one weird trick!
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Does your Mac becomes slow/unresponsive (fans kicking in etc.) when you npm install a huge project with a million tiny dependencies?

Solution:

Add an empty .metadata_never_index in /node_modules beforehand & it will prevent Spotlight from indexing all that crap.

ref: https://twitter.com/roelvangils/status/1113074439976075264

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