How to remove all globally installed npm modules

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to remove all globally installed npm modules from your system.

Removing specific npm module

To remove a specific npm module, you need to run npm uninstall -g command followed by the module name.

Here is an example that removes the globally installed react module.

npm uninstall -g react

Removing all npm modules

To remove all npm modules from your system, you can use the following command.

npm ls -gp --depth=0 | awk -F/ '/node_modules/ && !/\/npm$/ {print $NF}' | xargs npm -g rm

This above command scans all globally installed npm modules and removes each module by running npm -g rm

Note: This above command works on Linux, macOS and anywhere you are using Linux environment.

For windows, you need to open the following folder and delete all contents present in that folder.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm

or you can open that folder by searching the following path inside the explorer.

%appdata%/npm