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

2 pointssantiagogo2 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.

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.)

You're welcome BTW

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