pkg-dir
Find the root directory of a Node.js project or npm package (by sindresorhus)
rimraf
A `rm -rf` util for nodejs (by isaacs)
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| pkg-dir | rimraf | |
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| - | 16 | |
| 226 | 5,484 | |
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| 4.3 | 5.8 | |
| 6 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | ISC License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pkg-dir
Posts with mentions or reviews of pkg-dir.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning pkg-dir yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
rimraf
Posts with mentions or reviews of rimraf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-20.
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The Bun Shell
And npmjs.com will block your IP if you do too many downloads in on day.
Actually is says 86m a week here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
Huge thanks to Isaacs! Rimraf comes to the rescue, providing a reliable solution for deep, recursive removal of folders and files. At PURISTA, we rely on rimraf to maintain pristine build output directories.
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Understanding package.json II: Scripts
Avoid platform-specific commands: Avoid using platform-specific commands in your scripts. Use cross-platform tools like Node.js or Bash to ensure that your scripts work on different platforms. For instance, if you want your npm script to remove a certain directory using the rm -rf command, this would work perfectly on a Linux or Mac machine but would error out on Windows. To avoid this, you can use a cross-platform package such as [rimraf](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf).
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Extended "run all specs" feature for Cypress 10
rimraf
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The minimal setup to package and reuse your React components
Babel will overwrite but not delete any existing files or directories in the output directory. To be sure the lib folder doesn’t contain old files you can delete it before transpiling. To do this automatically you can install rimraf and add it to the transpile script like this:
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4 reasons to avoid using `npm link`
Many packages on npm are designed to make changes to the file-system, such as rimraf or a code linter. In an accident, the consequences of running file-system altering code can be detrimental.
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Help Deleting STONKING File Path (over 3000 char +) WS2016 File Server
Also, rimraf seems to be popular.
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I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
No, that's why there's a bunch of packages such as rimraf[0] that implements that sort of functionality in a cross-platform way that most people use in their scripts
[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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TIFU by accidentally creating over 15 million files on my computer
Something that might work: rimraf. A small node script can churn through file deletion surprisingly fast on Windows. Used to use it to clear out npm packages directories at a greater than glacial pace.
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Said it before, I'll say it again: Software Engineers are poets.
Um actually I use rimraf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pkg-dir and rimraf you can also consider the following projects:
graceful-fs - fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE
del - Delete files and directories
proper-lockfile - An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.
fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()
sander - Promise-based power tool for common filesystem tasks
mkdirp - Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`, but in node.js
make-dir - Make a directory and its parents if needed - Think `mkdir -p`
Filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system
cross-env
find-up - Find a file or directory by walking up parent directories
chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library