Cleaning up your global NPM packages

Sooner or later when you're working with any web app, you'll have to deal with nodejs because frontend requirements will force you to do so. And sooner or later, you'll have a mess of npm packages in your global space. You'll want to clean it up but when you issue the command npm list you get a whole mess of packages with their dependencies.

However there's a useful trick you can do that will make npm only list the top level packages without their dependencies.

$ npm list -g --depth 0

Here's a sample result:

The trick is the --depth 0 parameter. It suppresses the listing of a package's dependencies.

We can now tame our unruly global npm packages.

Ha!