[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002Fnpkill":3},{"path":4,"title":5,"description":6,"date":7,"rawbody":8},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnpkill","Stop Drowning in node_modules","Reclaim your disk space with npkill","2025-11-27","---\ntitle: 'Stop Drowning in node_modules'\ndescription: 'Reclaim your disk space with npkill'\ndate: '2025-11-27'\n---\n\nJavaScript developers have one common enemy: the black hole known as `node_modules`.\n\nWe all have that `workspace` folder where projects go to die. I checked mine recently. Gigabytes lost to dependencies for projects I haven't touched in months. Dead weight.\n\nDeleting them manually is slow. Using `rm -rf` blindly is risky.\n\n**The solution is `npkill`.**\n\nIt offers a clean terminal UI to wipe out old dependencies with a single keystroke.\n\n### How to use it\n\nGo to your main folder and run:\n\n```bash\nnpx npkill\n```\n\n1.  **Arrows** to navigate.\n2.  **Space** to delete.\n\nThat's it.\n\nNo installation needed. It scans fast. You destroy fast.\n\nThere is something genuinely therapeutic about freeing up 50GB of space in 10 seconds. Keep what you need, kill what you don’t.\n",1783267423771]