How to clear the Cache in Npm

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to clear or remove the cache from npm.

When we install a package using the npm install <package-name> command npm stores the cache inside the user file system.

The default cache directory is ~/.npm on Posix (mac or linux), or %AppData%/npm-cache on Windows.

Clearing the cache

To clear a cache in npm, we need to run the npm cache clean command followed by the --force flag in our terminal.

Here is an example:

npm cache clean --force

clean: It deletes the all data from your cache folder.

You can also verify the cache, by running the following command.

npm cache verify