Public Service Announcement : delete your old node_modules directory

What Big Backup does not want you to know

du -sh /Users/nmcg/gh/app/node_modules/
485M /Users/nmcg/gh/app/node_modules/

Yes, that’s right 485 MB in most of your javascript projects, pointlessly being backed up while Big Tech laughs at you.

Well no more

Rise up and reclaim space on your hard drive and your dignity

from pathlib import Path
import shutil


def readDir(root_dir_path):
    d = list(filter(lambda x: x.is_dir(), Path(root_dir_path).iterdir()))
    for i in d:
        n = i.name
        if n == "node_modules":
            print(f"node_modules dir found : {i}")
            shutil.rmtree(i)
        else:
            readDir(Path(i))


fp = "/Users/nmcg/gh"
readDir(fp)