[Update: see the bottom of the question] I have one system where lots of npm packages have been installed over time. I did try to update outdated ones and it seemed to do it but I still have some problems with setting up one project (the npm run setup command freezes at some point). I tried it on another system (both latest OS X) where npm was only recently installed and has just a few necessary global packages. As the old system has a lot of unnecessary node packages/modules (I used to install things globally), I'm thinking of removing all the npm packages, cleaning all the related caches and starting from scratch installing globally only the npm packages I need.
How can I delete all npm packages and clean the system of all remaining config/cache related to npm?
EDIT: I have run the command from the other thread and also deleted the .npm folder from the home directory and reinstalled npm I have done:
npm ls -gp --depth=0 | awk -F/ '/node_modules/ && !/\/npm$/ {print $NF}' | xargs npm -g rm
- deleted the ~/.npm (no .npm-global)
- ran
npm explore npm -g -- sh scripts/clean-old.sh
Now when I'm running 'npm list' I get a long list of:
npm ERR! missing: xxx-package details
which I assume were all the packages that used to be installed. It means that there's more to it, so kind of config/cache.
Thank you
