Trivia
"The heaviest objects in the universe: the sun, a neutron star, node_modules." An old developer joke — and the reason this project exists.
The part that isn't a joke: everything in that folder is derivable from a lockfile that usually fits in a few hundred kilobytes. You're storing gigabytes of something you could rebuild from a file smaller than a phone photo.
So every project folder is lopsided in a way nobody notices:
What you wrote — irreplaceable, and usually a rounding error in size.
What a machine wrote — enormous, and reproducible in one command.
Most cleanup tools see a project as a pile of files. Project Hibernate sees those two things, and only ever removes the second.
That's the whole product, in one line: the big part isn't precious, and the precious part isn't big.
