how to delete installed library form react native project

Question

I have installed a third party library in my project but it is not working , so I want to delete that library from my project , How can I do that ?

Answer 1

1. If it is a library based only on javascript, than you can just run npm uninstall --save package_name or npm uninstall --save-dev package_name
2. If you've installed a library with native content that requires linking, and you've linked it with rnpm then you can do: rnpm unlink package_name then follow step 1
3. If you've installed a library with native content manually, then just undo all the steps you took to add the library in the first place. Then follow step 1.

note rnpm as is deprecated

Answer 2

I followed the following steps:--

1. react-native unlink <lib name> -- this command has done the unlinking of the library from both platforms.

2. react-native uninstall <lib name> -- this has uninstalled the library from the node modules and its dependencies

3. Manually removed the library name from package.json -- somehow the --save command was not working for me to remove the library declaration from package.json.

After this I have manually deleted the empty react-native library from the node_modules folder