GCS - NPM dependencies

[lazharichir]

Using GCS in Google Cloud Functions, the number of dependencies matters hugely in order to improve cold starts. I use GCS for one short upload (logging) and it seems like it is hurting my cold start times as it has over a hundred dependencies in total.

+ @google-cloud/storage@1.7.0
added 106 packages from 121 contributors in 7.289s

Are you folks caching your own packages for faster loading or not really?

[JustinBeckwith]

This is something we're actively looking to fix. Most of those dependencies come in with request, so removing that is somewhat delicate work. We are actively working towards it though :)

[lazharichir]

Axios? No dependencies and does the job rather well... Thanks for the update!

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[JustinBeckwith]

Yes! We've already moved a few core dependencies over, and it's gone quite well. It's just a lot of work is all.

[fhinkel]

Thanks for raising the issue. Closing this as duplicate of googleapis/nodejs-datastore#9

[fhinkel]

@JustinBeckwith , why did you re-open this?

[JustinBeckwith]

We still have a dependency on request via gcs-resumable-upload. Can you post the results of a npm ls --production?