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I am trying to deploy a web project but before build it, I need to clear/delete the dist folder.
I could add a script that would run rm -rf dist/* but that would not work on Windows system.
Is there some npm package u other solution that allows deleting a folder with a command that works in every OS?
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The npm clean-install command (or npm ci for short) is an in-place replacement for npm install with two major differences: It does a clean install: if the node_modules folder exists, npm deletes it and installs a fresh one. It checks for consistency: if package-lock.
To remove all files from a directory, first you need to list all files in the directory using fs. readdir , then you can use fs. unlink to remove each file.
If you want to delete a folder and all files and subfolders inside it, you can use fsPromises. rmdir() with the recursive: true option, like this: import fsPromises from "fs/promises"; /* Other code go here */ fsPromises. rmdir(dirPath, { recursive: true });
You can use rimraf: https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf.
Note that if you are using globs containing the globstar (**), you must double-quote them. Unix systems don't all support the globstar by default, but rimraf will expand them for you. Windows doesn't support single-quotes, so those can't be used. Remember that double-quotes must be escaped in JSON with a \.
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Recently I was faced with the same challenge as you, and just like user Kevin Brown stated in a comment above, I was interested in a solution which wasn't just "use this npm package". So I'm throwing this out here hoping someone will find it useful.
So, what I did was taking some code I found in StackOverflow, putting it on a .js file, and binding it to an npm script in my package.json. In my case, the goal was to delete the "/out" folder, where .ts scripts were compiling to, but the possibilities are endless!
With this solution, you only need to start your app with "npm run cleanstart".
package.json
{ "name": "my_app", "version": "1.0.0", "main": "main.js", "scripts": { "tsc": "tsc", "precleanstart": "node clean.js", "cleanstart": "npm start", "prestart": "npm run tsc", "start": "node out/main.js" }, "dependencies": { "@babel/runtime": "^7.0.0-beta.54", "babel-runtime": "^6.26.0", "body-parser": "^1.18.3", "express": "^4.16.3", "typescript": "^3.0.3" } } clean.js
var fs = require('fs'); function deleteFolderRecursive(path) { if (fs.existsSync(path) && fs.lstatSync(path).isDirectory()) { fs.readdirSync(path).forEach(function(file, index){ var curPath = path + "/" + file; if (fs.lstatSync(curPath).isDirectory()) { // recurse deleteFolderRecursive(curPath); } else { // delete file fs.unlinkSync(curPath); } }); console.log(`Deleting directory "${path}"...`); fs.rmdirSync(path); } }; console.log("Cleaning working tree..."); deleteFolderRecursive("./out"); console.log("Successfully cleaned working tree!"); If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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