--- title: "#188: What Does An npm Module 'Cost'?" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 188 published_at: "2017-05-18" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/188" --- #188: What Does An npm Module 'Cost'? This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/188) Node WeeklyMay 18, 2017 #188 Michael Herman [Developing Microservices with Node, React, and Docker](http://mherman.org/blog/2017/05/11/developing-microservices-node-react-docker/#.WRm-xRPyuV5)Learn how to quickly spin up a reproducible development environment with Docker to manage a number of Node microservices. Shubham Kanodia [What Does An npm Module 'Cost'?](https://cost-of-modules.herokuapp.com/)A simple tool that shows you the size of an npm package, both minified and gzipped. 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