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npkill - The solution to deleting node_modules easily, with style

Carlos Caballero on August 08, 2019

Introduction One of my happiest memories related to software development was when I developed and distributed my first project among my ...
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Nya

Just published a patch. --delete-all should be fixed and working properly. If you encounter any more issues, don't hesitate to let me know and I will do my best to fix them. Thank you for your comment and your patience :D

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Nya

As you probably know already, using find/exec will delete every single result the command yields.
Npkill allows you to select which folders you want to erase, as well as calculating the amount of freed space... Without having to remember any lengthy commands :D

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Taskhyn Maksim

used just now but didn't delet anything

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Juan

Hi taskhyn!

We believe it may be related to directory permissions. We will release a patch shortly that will notify the user about any errors related to permission problems.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for trying npkill.

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Carlos Caballero

Hi @sarbazx !

What were your steps to run the tool?

Thanks!

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Taskhyn Maksim

started by invoking command and then according to instruction pressed delete button or is it different key on mac?

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Srijan

Hi @sarbazx ! I am having trouble with the same. Did you managed to figure it out?

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Taskhyn Maksim

Hi, no i was just testing it.

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Nya

Hey guys!

Just figured out I made a stupid mistake. Apparently the del keycode is different in mac, which is why it doesn't work (key is undefined). Will fix it right now!! So sorry!!

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Carlos Caballero

Hey @Nya!

Quiet and sure the patch is on its way :-).

Thank you very much for your app.

My MacBook wants to reduce the weight of the node_modules.

Cheer up!

Thanks!

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Jozo • Edited

It's not good practice to install NPM packages with sudo, I'd rather use npx command.
Of course correct me if I'm wrong.
But good job for developers it's a package I'll use definitely.

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Carlos Caballero

Totally true!

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Muhammad

Astonishing.. I'd say just one word...

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Carlos Caballero

Hi @th3n00brc0d3r!

They are very happy for their first open source project.

Thanks.

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webdevinci

Well this helps a ton of things. Great share

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Carlos Caballero

Hi @webdevinci !

How many tons of gigabytes have you freed up?πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Thanks!

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webdevinci

I have 6.2 GB there (not too bad, not too good). I figure i can get rid of a 1/3 at least! It's a beautiful thing

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Carlos Caballero

Hi!

Really nice!

☺️

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Justin D. Givens

AWESOME tool!! Didn't realized I wasted over 10G of space on node_modules!

Feature suggestion: Row highlighting or something like that.

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Nya

Glad you found it useful! Great suggestion, will add it to the roadmap, thanks ;D

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Jason C. McDonald

Love the illustration, btw. ;)

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Carlos Caballero

Hi @codemouse92 ,

The logo has been created by them too.

Thanks!

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Valerio

Thanks a lot, Mate :)

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Omar Dulaimi

This is really awesome, I still remember when I used to manually delete each node modules folder one by one. Great addition to the npm community indeed.

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Jonathan Duck

Check out ncdu.

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Carlos Caballero

Hi!

Thanks!

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Phu Hoang

Awesome Jobs Guy!!!

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PabloC

On Mac just:

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

would do the same I think.

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Luca Fedrizzi

Cool idea! Thank you ❀️

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Nya

Oh no... will have to work on it. Thanks for letting us know 😊

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Carlos Caballero

Thanks!

The guys are working in improve the project. They are very happy cause that the tool is useful to the community (in my Linux works perfectly πŸ˜‚)