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voidcosmos
npkill
TypeScript2019–2023
voidcosmos / npkill
npkill
Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules 📦, artifacts, caches and dev leftovers 🧹
4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9.5KGitHub stars
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Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules 📦, artifacts, caches and dev leftovers 🧹
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Observed mentions: 2019-08-18 12:01:57 UTC to 2023-02-02 14:52:51 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesMAmatijash·Feb 2, 2023Submission
Npkill – Find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders
2 points · Open discussionSlightly unrelated, but it always amazes me how big the dependency tree in js world can get. Hundreds of megabytes for SPAs. I don't understand js development or how anyone can live with that, but since I do need to edit it here and there I stumbled upon this handy tool.
https://github.com/voidcosmos/npkill
In pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScriptCurious JavaScript devs, run npkill and reclaim GBs of space
2 points · Open discussionList and delete old and heavy node_modules with style. free up space
4 points · Open discussion