Node for Max file size

Danny de Graan's icon

For a standalone I use Node for Max (node.script) for creating some folders in the macOS system folder. However when I checked the file size of the app, its huge. When I open the contents of the standalone and go to:

/Users/Mymac/Desktop/Appname/Contents/Resources/C74/packages/Node for Max/source/bin/osx/node/node

...the node executable alone is 192mb. Is there a way to reduce its size or is it just better to go back to using Shell which I previously used? Node.script is a very elegant and I like it a lot but its rather big. The overall file size of the standalone is about 550mb and it only uses midi.

Running Max 8.6.5 on macOS.

Thanks for any input