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This tweet made me wonder: if we actually printed the dependencies of a "hello world" create-react-app app, how tall would the stack of paper be? Let's calculate.
We'll use Pages' default margins and font size (11 pt). I arbitrarily choose Consolas as the font. That gives 49 lines of code per sheet.
`tokei node_modules` reports 2,669,088 lines in the node_modules of a newly-generated create-react-app 2.1.8 app. Dividing by 49, that's 54,471 sheets of paper.
A sheet of copy paper is about 0.1 mm thick. hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/Jul…
Multiplying sheet count by thickness, we get 5,447.1 mm = 5.4471 meters ~= 17.871 feet.
Returning to the original photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of her node_modules directory... the paper is about as tall as her. Therefore, Margaret Hamilton is almost 18 feet tall.
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