Uninstall Bower & NPM Dependencies

#You’re Guilty And so am I.

We install packages we think we need, only to find out we don’t. But, like a sock on the floor, we think “It’s just going to clean itself up” and forget about it. Some time later, we notice we’re loading a lot of dependencies our project no longer needs. All those socks have piled up and it’s time to clean.

#Clean Up The Hard Way

To get rid of unneeded packages, the rough way is to:

1. Delete the folder from node_modules or bower_components.
2. Physically delete the reference in package.json or bower.json.

#The Easy Uninstall Use the --save flag.

bower uninstall <module> --save
and npm uninstall <module> --save

both get rid of the folder and the reference in the .json files.

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