npm command to uninstall or prune unused packages in Node.js
If you're not worried about a couple minutes time to do so, a solution would be to rm -rf node_modules
and npm install
again to rebuild the local modules.
Note: Recent npm
versions do this automatically when running npm install
if package-locks are enabled, so this is not necessary except for removing development packages with the --production
flag.
Run npm prune
to remove modules not listed in package.json
.
From npm help prune
:
This command removes "extraneous" packages. If a package name is provided, then only packages matching one of the supplied names are removed.
Extraneous packages are packages that are not listed on the parent package's dependencies list.
If the
--production
flag is specified, this command will remove the packages specified in your devDependencies.