How to delete an npm package from the npm registry?

Question

Is there a possible way to remove or delete the entire module from npm registry?

Notice: npm -f unpublish doesn't allowed you to unpublish anything older than 24 hours

Answer 1

There's a post about that, given the recent incident. Your best bet would be to contact npm and hope that your package isn't depended by other projects.

If the version is older than 24 hours, then the unpublish will fail, with a message to contact [email protected].

If you contact support, they will check to see if removing that version of your package would break any other installs. If so, we will not remove it. You’ll either have to transfer ownership of the package or reach out to the owners of dependent packages to change their dependency.

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy

Answer 2

TL;DR:

npx force-unpublish package-name 'reason message' 

Explanation:

It uses the cli tool force-unpublish which takes the following steps:

1. npm deprecate package-name 'reason message'
2. npm owner add npm package-name
3. npm owner rm $(npm whoami) package-name

https://www.npmjs.com/package/force-unpublish