Too many NPM packages

[tahaerden]

Hi, I am still a little new to diving into NPM packages and Webpack. I am using this module for some time and really loving it.

However, when I use npm i angular-multiple-select --save-dev it installs around 480 modules which are around 70MB in my node_modules folder.

If I remove all those modules that I don't need, but keep 'angular-multiple-select' which is 70KB, it still works!

So my question is, is it possible to download only the necessary module when using npm install?

Thanks in advance.