How to completely uninstall node and npm on Mac

This time I will show you how to completely uninstall node and npm in Mac. What are the precautions? Here are actual cases, let’s take a look.

Using nvm to manage node versions is very convenient. You can switch between different versions freely, but nvminstalls The node is under ~/.nvm, which is the same as the one installed before We are not together, and I have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, so I want to uninstall the previous one

homebrew installed

directly command

brew uninstall node

Official website to download the pkg installation package

One command

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{bin/{node,npm},lib/node_modules/npm,lib/node,share/man/*/node.*}

Installation by other ways

Make a script to put the needsDelete files, kill them all in one stroke

The content is as follows, named: uninstallnode.sh

#!/bin/bash
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom \
| while read i; do
 sudo rm /usr/local/${i}
done
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node \
  /usr/local/lib/node_modules \
  /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

Modify file permissions chmod 777 uninstallNodejs.sh

Execute on the command line

Tips:

After deleting these things, the node will be deleted.

But there are a lot of software and command line tools installed based on node, which also need to be reinstalled, such as react-native, supervisor, pm2 etc

Need to delete /usr/local/bin The following related files are actually just soft links, and they are all located in the /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ directory.

In the previous steps, it has been deleted, but you can still find it by pressing the tab key because these soft connections still exist.

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