Default @nuxt/image bundle size

[AloisSeckar]

Hi, today I made an observation, that surprised me (and I am not sure whether it should or it is a well known fact):

Adding @nuxt/image as a module into Nuxt project is significantly inflating the output server bundle size.

Fresh Nuxt 4.4.5 from starter template is:

Σ Total size: 1.79 MB (440 kB gzip)

Just adding modules: ['@nuxt/image'] - and not even doing anything in code - turns it into:

Σ Total size: 25.8 MB (9.99 MB gzip)

I believe it is because the sharp runtime for ipx, the default image provider, is being attached.

I understand, that it is proably not possible to do it in some other way (apart from changing provider, but then you need an account and stuff which makes things a bit more complicated. But I still think this is some serious "bloat", eventhough it is server-side code. Or do I overreact?

DId I miss something in the docs talking about this behavior? I am aware of this part, but this sounds that it will make the problem even worse with multiple runtimes bundled...