Node modules are famous for being the heaviest object in the universe 😂 and deleting them is no joke.... Tagged with javascript, tutorial, node, npm.

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Learn how to delete node modules faster and without any hassle using npkill.

Delete Node Modules like a PRO 😎

rm -rf node_modules does trick, no?

Very important stuff if you work with JavaScript :D

oh god, why? just do rm -rf seriously, learn to use the basic unix commands, that’s what makes you a “PRO” not this, and why are we polluting npmjs with even more useless stuff? Is it not bad enough already?
Imo a real amazing contribution is you teaching people to check the weight of subdependencies and consider those any time they’re considering importing some package from npmjs because it’s getting RIDICULOUS precisely because everyones package includes dozens of other packages that often times just do silly one or two liners.
And sometimes more egregiously do the same underlying function as a simple UNIX one-liner but extend it into massively over-engineered libraries that are 10 JS files wide. (looking at you, Rimraf)
Would be awesome if people just started remaking popular libraries without importing any code (or as little as possible). Would also drastically decrease the communities current vulnerability to malicious actors taking over random small github repositories that are somehow imported unwittingly by millions of people who have no idea they even exist.

There should also be a plugin to change directory for ppl using this.