Intro
In this article I'll tell you about a cool tool I just found on npm, called npkill, that helps you cleaning node_modules from proj...
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From time to time, I usually run a script like:
It displays untouched
node_modulesfrom the last 90 days. After reviewing, I activate the flag to delete them.That's a good one!
If I remember correctly npkill was also planning to add a min date feature to filter old node modules, but isn't implemented yet.
Yes indeed, but pnpm doesn't work well with older versions of node (v10 for example:yes some companies still use it) so this package can be a life saver for servers/personal pc disk space
If you are reading this, and work at such a company, that is a huge risk. I strongly recommend to move to node 14 and then node 16 layer this year as LTS support for v12 is over. It's a scary security posture otherwise! (And the side bonus you can explore server side esmodules, pnpm, vite... Etc 👍🔥)
I am able to release freaking 9 GB from my disk 🤯
rm -rf it all 😆
Just kidding.
Keep the informative articles coming, thank you.
Useful tip!
This is great thanks very much, i've got some chonky folders locally that are in need of a cleanup!
Wow, thanks! That's really useful. I was planning to do this manually, but this saved me A LOT of time and 9.88GB of space!
That's great to hear, thank you for sharing this!
If you really want to save space, you could always run the
npxcommand without the install first... or maybefind . -type d -name node_modules | xargs du -shI was wonder why you would use npx after globally installing it. Using the npx command by itself seems a much better practice.
That's indeed correct, this will save you an extra 1.9MB of space.
Not a life changer as the many GB you will free a few seconds later, but still a valid suggestion. Thank you for sharing! :)
Great tip - much appreciated