Deleting Old Node Modules to Save Space Automatically

in #utopia-io7 years ago (edited)

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I just found this lovely tool that will remove all the node_modules folders automatically. This is very helpful as my computer currently has tons of node_modules folders and take up a lot of my storage. You can get the source code wipe-modules and also can be installed through NPM:

npm install --global wipe-modules 


After you have it installed just run the -h help command to get a list of
options:

    $ wipe-modules --help 


Usage: wipe-modules [path] [days]

Path: The full path of your code directory

Days: The days you want to set to mark projects as inactive

Example: wipe-modules ~/code 90

That will cleanup the node_modules of your ~/code projects whose been inactive for 90 days or more.

This video will demo how the tool works:

asciicast


What a great tool and now I don't have to worry about spacing on my
computer. Also, since all the dependencies should have been saved in my
package.json, all data should be not be losing too.