If I have a package.json file defined in my application root and run npm install -g it will install all the dependencies defined in package.json, globablly.
However, this doesn't seem to work in reverse.
If I do npm uninstall -g in my application root it throws an error, expceting me to pass it a package name.
Shouldn't this also uninstall the same packages I installed?
Am I doing something wrong?
If using Bash, just switch into the folder that has your package.json file and run the following:
for package in `ls node_modules`; do npm uninstall $package; done;
In the case of globally-installed packages, switch into your %appdata%/npm folder (if on Windows) and run the same command.
EDIT: This command breaks with npm 3.3.6 (Node 5.0). I'm now using the following Bash command, which I've mapped to npm_uninstall_all in my .bashrc file:
npm uninstall `ls -1 node_modules | tr '/\n' ' '`
Added bonus? it's way faster!