rimraf
A `rm -rf` util for nodejs (by isaacs)
PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer. (by Unitech)
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| rimraf | PM2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 59 | |
| 5,484 | 40,697 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.8 | 6.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 14 days ago | |
| TypeScript | JavaScript | |
| ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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
PM2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PM2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-20.
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Node.js PM2 Explained
Start by registering the app using the official guide.
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Deploy Node.js applications on a VPS using Coolify
Run the application using PM2 (ref: Process manager for Node.js)
- PM2: Production Process Manager with a Built-In Load Balancer
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AI for Web Devs: Deploying Your AI App to Production
There are plenty of ways to accomplish this: Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumis, etc., but I don’t like to add too much complexity. So for a basic app, I like to use PM2, a Node.js process manager with great features, including the ability to run our app in the background.
- PM2 Cheatsheet
- Is PM2 safe to install on my Mint?
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How to get the count of your followers on dev.to
This project will consist of a single "index.js" file that you can deploy anywhere. I recommend using an Nginx reverse proxy and pm2 to keep the service running.
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A Guide To Self-Hosting Web Apps On Ubuntu Servers
Your app should be running now. To be able to run the app in the background, I will use pm2. Stop your application using "Ctrl + C" and install pm2
- How to run Ec2-instance constantly?
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I need help
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2 I found this package. It looks good and solves my problem, I think.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rimraf and PM2 you can also consider the following projects:
del - Delete files and directories
Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()
supervisor
mkdirp - Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`, but in node.js
forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
proper-lockfile - An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
cross-env
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)
chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
naught - Zero downtime deployment for your Node.js server using builtin cluster API