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So oddly I really cannot find the answer to this question and after a few posts and docs I've looked at on NPM I've decided to ask the question - which may be a very basic one but doesn't seem to be implicitly addressed...

How do you uninstall npm from a dir?

Premis:

you npm init -y on the wrong directory

desired outcome:

to remove npm from that directory

I'm working on windows 10 / using git bash on VS code terminal

any help here would be appreciated -

Wally

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All npm init does is setting up package.json for you (guided or not). If you just del package.json from the wrong directory, you should be good to go.

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  • Hi Kamen - thanks for the answer - such a basic solution, I would have thought that npm init would have done something more behind the scenes, so is npm init even necessary - or could you just create a package.json file manually? – Wally May 28 '20 at 10:10
  • It's the same, `npm init` is just a way of doing it through the CLI. If you call it with `-y`, it will just init with default values with no other input from you, otherwise it will go through the needed params and ask you to input values. – Kamen Minkov May 28 '20 at 10:13
  • '-f' or '-y' ... ok thank you for the input - I know its a very basic question – Wally May 28 '20 at 10:16
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    Not sure if I'm looking at the right thing, but it seems that all four (`-f`, `--force`, `-y`, `--yes`) are the same: https://github.com/npm/init-package-json/blob/latest/init-package-json.js#L18 – Kamen Minkov May 28 '20 at 12:54
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Deleting the package.json from the wrong directory should do the trick.

You will have to keep in mind that if in case you have run the npm i or npm install commands after npm init you will also have to delete the node_modules folder (as it usually takes plenty of disk space) and run npm i now in the correct directory.

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