Anyone can show me how to safely delete node_modules to clear up harddisk space?

#node #beginners

UPDATED:

For anyone who found this post,
I found a package called npkill

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Hi all

I use a Mac and it comes with 512GB SSD. There are so many things in stalled and my SSD is low on space.

I would say docker take the most space in my laptop. But I found out that cleaning up node_modules from older projects could help.

First, please let me give you some background.

I run a software development team where there are more than 100 projects in both ruby and nodejs in my computer. Which I organise like this.
- ~/_workspace root folder for all code. _ is to make it easy to access.
- ~/_workspace/customer_1_name/project_1_name
- ~/_workspace/customer_1_name/project_2_name
- ~/_workspace/customer_2_name/project_1_name
- I usually name folder with underscore case.
I use NVM and .nvmrc in my projects.
- There are so many node_modules folders from yarn and npm i which is taking too much space on my laptop.
I use RVM and .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset in my projects.
- Rails use yarn and some project has node_modules which is also taking too much space.
There are more than 100 folders to clean up and that's for me only. My team need to do this as well.

I need help I safely delete node_modules folders. Or if anyone face the same problem, please share your experience.

Thank you so much.

Top comments (2)

There is no big problem that I know of to delete the node_modules folder of a project. A simple yarn or npm install will recreate it.

I use this line of code to get rid of my node_modules folders in the root of all my project's folders (before a backup for example):

find . -name "node_modules" -exec rm -rf '{}' +

I wrote up an article here about how to achieve it on Mac/Windows actually!
trilon.io/blog/how-to-delete-all-n...