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Discussion on: Delete Node Modules like a PRO 😎

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Manjit Pardeshi

rm -rf node-modules does the job too

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benjaminv

No it does not :-). It is rm -rf node_modules does

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Shinigami

npx npkill can recursively traverse your directories
So you can use it from e.g. your HOME folder and then remove every unnecessary node_modules in every directory/project

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Martynas Petuška

So can rm -rf **/node_modules

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Shinigami

This will remove everything without any control

With npkill you can select each node_modules individually

Try it and you will see what I mean