5 years ago
How to magically free up gigabytes of disk space
#Webdev
I'm writing this quick tip just so I don't have to google it every single time I run out of disk space. If you have a lot of JS projects on disk, that means you have a lot of node_modules
folders taking up a bunch of space. You can easily clean them up in 2 different ways:
Delete all node_modules
folders
- Open a terminal
- Navigate to the folder where you store your web dev projects
find . -name "node_modules" -exec rm -rf '{}' +
Be patient because this can take a while and there won't be any progress bar or visual indication that the node_modules
are being deleted
Choose folders to delete
- Open a terminal
- Navigate to the folder where you store your web dev projects
- Run
npx npkill
. This package will give you an interactive CLI which will measure how much space thenode_modules
are taking and it will let you choose which ones to delete
That's it, enjoy your disk space 🎉