How do you "uninstall" / delete node_modules from NPM ?

[Aaron Gray]

Hi,

I want a standard way I can delete node_modules directory. npm
uninstall just gives me the message :-

npm WARN uninstall not installed in
C:\Users\Aaron\github\template-node-marionet
te-app\node_modules: "template-node-marionette-app"

Help !

Aaron

[Ryan Schmidt]

The standard way to delete the node_modules directory is to delete the node_modules directory, using your normal operating system / file manager commands for deleting directories.

[Aaron Gray]

It would be nice to have a command to do it and also allow script to
delete bower_components as well.

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[Aria Stewart]

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Aaron Gray <aaronngr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would be nice to have a command to do it and also allow script to
> delete bower_components as well.

like:

npm install -g rimraf
rimraf node_modules

Though there's "npm rm" and "npm uninstall" to delete single modules.

Bower is entirely orthogonal, so that's up to you to script -- what's the end goal you're working toward?

Aria

[Aaron Gray]

Thanks !

I am open really Bower maybe the way forward then. I am just more
familiar to npm. I was thinking of doing a patch for npm something
like :-

npm uninstall --force

or something like that. I will look at Bower and if I can get it to
work cross platform across *nix and Windows then I may well use that.

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[Aria Stewart]

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks !
>
> I am open really Bower maybe the way forward then. I am just more
> familiar to npm. I was thinking of doing a patch for npm something
> like :-
>

npm rm and npm uninstall should work -- what are you trying to do exactly?

> npm uninstall --force
>
> or something like that. I will look at Bower and if I can get it to
> work cross platform across *nix and Windows then I may well use that.

Good luck!

[Adrian Lynch]

Or maybe the last module out the door should take the node_modules folder with it! :D

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[Aria Stewart]

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:41 AM, Adrian Lynch <adrian...@concreteplatform.com> wrote:
>
> Or maybe the last module out the door should take the node_modules folder with it! :D

It probably could -- what's the use-case for this?

Aria