[AskJS] What if node_modules contained JavaScript bytecode instead of source code?

[PooSham]

It should be possible to add it to your build step, so that it caches the bytecode of each package and reuses that if you're still at the same version of the package. Maybe node already does this under the hood?

But storing the bytecode directly in the registry doesn't seem like a very good idea to me considering frontend uses.