NPM clean modules

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Is there a way to get npm to unbuild all the modules under node modules   Something like npm rebuild that removes all build artifacts but doesn t rebuild them

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I added this to my package json     build    npm build    clean    rm -rf node modules     reinstall    npm run clean  amp  amp  npm install     rebuild    npm run clean  amp  amp  npm install  amp  amp  npm run build     Seems to work well

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There is actually special command for this job npm ci  It will delete node modules directory and will install packages with respect your package-lock json file More info  https   docs npmjs com cli ci html

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For windows environment    scripts          clean    rmdir  s  q node modules

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I have added few lines inside package json    scripts              clean    rmdir  s  q node modules      reinstall    npm run clean  amp  amp  npm install      rebuild    npm run clean  amp  amp  npm install  amp  amp  rmdir  s  q dist  amp  amp  npm run build --prod             If you want to clean only you can use this rimraf node modules

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You can take advantage of the  npm cache  command which downloads the package tarball and unpacks it into the npm cache directory   The source can then be copied in   Using ideas gleaned from https   groups google com forum  fromgroups   topic npm- mwLuZZkHkfU I came up with the following node script  No warranties  YMMV  etcetera   var fs   require  fs    path   require  path    exec   require  child process   exec  util   require  util     var packageFileName    package json   var modulesDirName    node modules   var cacheDirectory   process cwd    var npmCacheAddMask    npm cache add  s  s  echo  s   var sourceDirMask     s  s  s package   var targetDirMask     s node modules  s    function deleteFolder folder        if  fs existsSync folder             var files   fs readdirSync folder           files forEach function file                file   folder         file              if  fs lstatSync file  isDirectory                      deleteFolder file                 else                   fs unlinkSync file                                     fs rmdirSync folder            function downloadSource folder        var packageFile   path join folder  packageFileName       if  fs existsSync packageFile             var data   fs readFileSync packageFile           var package   JSON parse data            function getVersion data                var version   data match  -   -     tgz                return version 1                      var callback   function error  stdout  stderr                var dependency   stdout trim                var version   getVersion stderr               var sourceDir   util format sourceDirMask  cacheDirectory  dependency  version               var targetDir   util format targetDirMask  folder  dependency               var modulesDir   folder         modulesDirName               if   fs existsSync modulesDir                     fs mkdirSync modulesDir                              fs renameSync sourceDir  targetDir               deleteFolder cacheDirectory         dependency               downloadSource targetDir                       for  dependency in package dependencies                var version   package dependencies dependency               exec util format npmCacheAddMask  dependency  version  dependency   callback                      if   fs existsSync path join process cwd    packageFileName          console log util format  Unable to find file   s     packageFileName        process exit       deleteFolder path join process cwd    modulesDirName    process env npm config cache   cacheDirectory  downloadSource process cwd

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Try  https   github com voidcosmos npkill  npx npkill   it will find all node modules and let you remove them

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You can just delete the node module directory  rm -rf node modules

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In a word no   In two  not yet   There is  however  an open issue for a --no-build flag to npm install to perform an installation without building  which could be used to do what you re asking   See this open issue

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