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Stefan Natter
I am interested in and talking about JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, and Software Engineering.
When you execute yarn install or npm install, plenty of node_modules are installed. Your dependencies and devDependencies and their dependencies and so on. So it can quickly happen that the node_modules folder of your project becomes several hundred ...
Hulya Masharipov
Technical Writer, Frontend Developer
Hi, I saw your post from Catalin's youtube channel. Is it okay if I delete Cache files from Visual Studio Code and yarn? I run this command(npx npkill) and it's showing me I have 95.53 GB of releasable space. Thanks for the information 👍🏻
Hi Hulya Karakaya, I’m glad you found my article.
npx will only delete node_modules. So if it says you have ~96 GB of node_modules it can delete, then yeah, it’s safe.
Wow, thanks. I’m so excited 😀Stefan Natter
Catalin Pit
I cleaned 2.13GB of trash from my laptop with this. It's awesome! Thank you! 🔥
You're welcome! It is sometimes crazy how much storage space we leave unused but consumed. :D
🤜🏻🤛🏻
Hulya Masharipov
Technical Writer, Frontend Developer
Hi, I saw your post from Catalin's youtube channel. Is it okay if I delete Cache files from Visual Studio Code and yarn? I run this command(npx npkill) and it's showing me I have 95.53 GB of releasable space. Thanks for the information 👍🏻