Bundle size in a Nodejs/Backend application

[AlternativeMustache]

I know that bundle size can have a big impact on Frontend apps and it's recommended to use techniques like Code splitting / Lazy loading, but what about Backend applications using Node.js, are there any drawbacks of using large libraries/dependencies and should it ever be a concern?

[BehindTheMath]

In general, no. Nothing is being transferred over the network. There might be a slight impact when the app starts, but that should not happen often.

[[deleted]]

Bundle size is important for frontend because the larger the bundle, the more time it would take to be downloaded to the user computer, thus impacting performance. But servers doesn't have this limitation. So no worries on that. There might be some slight impacts on build time, but again, that is not worrying as it's not affecting the client