To remove a package from your node_modules directory, use:
npm uninstall <package>:
npm uninstall lodash
To remove it from the dependencies in package.json, you will need to use the save flag:
npm uninstall --save lodash
Note: if you installed the package as a "devDependency" (i.e. with --save-dev) then --save won't remove it from package.json. You have to use --save-dev to uninstall it.
To confirm that npm uninstall worked correctly, find the node_modules directory. Be sure that it no longer contains a directory for the package(s) you uninstalled.
You can do this by running:
ls node_modules on Unix systems such as "OSX"dir node_modules on Windows.Install a package called lodash. Confirm that it ran successfully by listing the contents of the node_modules directory and seeing a directory called lodash.
Uninstall lodash with npm uninstall. Confirm that it ran successfully by listing the contents of the node_modules directory and confirming the absence of a directory called lodash.
> npm install lodash
> dir node_modules # use `ls node_modules` for Unix
#=> lodash
> npm uninstall lodash
> dir node_modules # use `ls node_modules` for Unix
#=>
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