Remove Installed npm Packages

Remove local packages

To completely remove unneeded packages from a project, you can use the npm uninstall command:

$ npm uninstall package ...

Where package ... is a list of package names.

When executed, it will:

1. Remove the package from the node_modules directory.
2. Remove the package from the dependencies, devDependencies, and peerDependencies objects of the package.json file.
3. Update the package-lock.json file to reflect those changes in the dependency tree of the project.

Remove global packages

To uninstall a global package, you can use the npm uninstall command with the -g flag.

$ npm uninstall -g <package ...>

This will remove the package from the global npm installation directory.

Clean up unused dependencies

To remove any unused or unreferenced dependencies from the node_modules directory, to free up disk space and improve the performance of your application, you can use the npm prune command:

$ npm prune