Tip to free up gigabytes of space if you are a Node.js developer

2 pointssantiagogo10y ago2 comments

Crawl (cd) to the folder where you have you node projects (eg. /dev) and then just run the following command:

find . -type d -name node_modules -exec rm -rf {} +

Works great before backing up or moving files.

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Also, upgrading to NPM >= 3 is a big deal for storage space as it flattens node_modules by default, which means fewer duplicate copies of some of the shared libraries you use. (It also means fewer long path issues for us Windows users.)

davidpelaez10y ago

You're welcome BTW

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