# Quickly remove all node_modules folders from your system to free up disk space

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Whenever, we are working with React, Angular, Nodejs or any other library or framework, we always need to create a `node_modules` folder which takes up a lot of space and we don’t bother to remove the node_modules folder once our job is done.

So we end up creating many `node_modules` folders in various project folders which takes up a lot of hard-disk space on our filesystem.

Today we will see a very helpful command which scans our file system and easily allows us to remove the `node_modules` folders in a single click within seconds.

## Installation

You actually, don’t need to install the package to use it.

You just need to run it as

```
npx npkill
```

> npx allows to run npm commands without installing the package.

You can however, install the npkill package if you really need to install it using

```
npm install npkill -g
```

and now you can just run `npkill` command from the terminal from any directory to delete the ``node_modules` folder.

Once the list is displayed, you can navigate using arrow keys and delete the specific node_modules directory by hitting spacebar.

To exit out of the list, press **q** key on your keyboard or **Control + C**

> By default, `npkill` will list out the node_modules folders from the current directory and its subdirectories.

So if you want to delete all the node_modules from your system, you need to execute the` npkill` command from your home or root directory.

## Speed

You might think that it will take a lot of time to delete a single `node_modules` folder using `npkill`, but that’s not true. Actually, it's very fast. within a second the folder will be deleted. So Just give it a try

That’s it for today. Now keep deleting node_modules happily.

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