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As commonly known, any npm module can be installed by running a simple command: npm install <module_name>.
I have installed a few modules that I do not use any more and I just want to get them off. I have a few questions regarding this:
Do we have any command or process to uninstall a module from the root (something like npm uninstall <module_name>) or will simply removing the module files do?
How does it affect us if we keep the unused modules?
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To remove a package with the npm uninstall command, you can use the syntax npm uninstall package-name in the directory where the package is located.
To completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following: go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules. go to /usr/local/include and delete any node and node_modules directory. if you installed with brew install node, then run brew uninstall node in your terminal.
Log in to npm with your user account. Navigate to the package page for the package you want to unpublish, replacing <your-package-name> with the name of your package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/<your-package-name> . Click Settings. Under "delete package", click Delete package.
The command is simply npm uninstall <name>
The Node.js documents https://npmjs.org/doc/ have all the commands that you need to know with npm.
A local install will be in the node_modules/ directory of your application. This won't affect the application if a module remains there with no references to it.
If you're removing a global package, however, any applications referencing it will crash.
Here are different options:
npm uninstall <name> removes the module from node_modules but does not update package.json
npm uninstall <name> --save also removes it from dependenciesin package.json
npm uninstall <name> --save-dev also removes it from devDependencies in package.json
npm uninstall -g <name> --save also removes it globally
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