Using npm effectively can be difficult. There are a ton of features built-in, and it can be a daunting task to try to approach learning them. Personally, even learning and using just one of these tricks (npm prune, which is #4) saved me from getting rid of unused modules manually by deleting node_modules and re-installing everything with npm install. As you can probably imagine, that was insanely
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