NPM clean modules

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Dave Causey picture Dave Causey · Jul 5, 2012 · Viewed 229.6k times · Source

Is there a way to get npm to unbuild all the modules under node_modules? Something like npm rebuild that removes all build artifacts but doesn't rebuild them?

Answer

Charles picture Charles · Jul 6, 2012

You can just delete the node_module directory

rm -rf node_modules/

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