Rebuilding node_modules?

[RedTn]

What's the best way to rebuild my node_modules folder?
Context: sometimes I like to mess around manually in there, maybe typing .js files manually inside node_modules folder.

Would it be to run:

• yarn clean
• yarn install
  ??

I find this method is slow, back in yarn v1 I would use https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/install/#toc-yarn-install-check-files

[fictitious]

I don't know anything better than removing node_modules and removing .yarn/install-state.tgz, then doing yarn install. Yes it's slow.

I made yarn plugin just for that - after adding the plugin, you can run yarn clean state then yarn install.

[jj811208]

Maybe you could try the official plugin
https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/tree/master/packages/plugin-patch and just delete it when you want to go back to the original, which I think is much faster than rebuilding node_modules.

[belgattitude]

I tend to just add a script in package.json for the extremely rare occasions. I don't remove the install-state as it does not seem to create issues.

{
  "scripts": {
    // The glob **/ is for monorepos
     "nuke:node_modules": "rimraf '**/node_modules'",
   },
  "devDependencies": {
     "rimraf": "3.0.2",
   }
}

Just run yarn nuke:node_modules followed by a yarn install.