How to remove node_modules in all workspaces (nodeLinker node-modules)?

[jeffrson]

For a clean build with nodeLinker "node-modules" I want to remove existing node_modules in all workspaces. Apparently, this does not happen when running yarn from the root workspace.

I could use something like
yarn workspaces foreach exec ...,
however, this is dependent on successful yarn install in the workspaces' root (sensible yarn.lock needed). But I cannot/dont want to rely on that.

Another possibility would be to use "lerna clean -y", but I don't want to include lerna just for this.

What is the "recommended" way to that (other than writing platform dependent shell scripts myself)?

[arcanis]

What is the "recommended" way to that (other than writing platform dependent shell scripts myself)?

You're not supposed to, yarn install will remove files that shouldn't be there on its own. If you really want to do it, find . -name node_modules -exec rm -rf {} \; will do the trick.

[jeffrson]

Thanks!

Unfortunately this did not work for me. After updating my mono-repository with git and running yarn I was facing problems related to left-overs of node_modules:

• old versions of libraries remaining
• lots of unneeded files remaining
  Both situations could be resolved only by removing all node_modules prior to yarn (or yarn install). With Pnp this will be different, of course.

[Andre-3rd-Viking]

Found this answer:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/70030644/704681