Uninstall & Reinstall Vue CLI or Any Global Node.js Package
In this short article, I’m going to show how to uninstall and reinstall any global package of Node.js.
Table of Contents
Uninstall Any Package
Let’s see the structure of deleteing any global package:
# npm
npm uninstall -g PACKAGE_NAME
# yarn
yarn global remove PACKAGE_NAME
Then we need to clear cache.
Uninstall Vue CLI
Run the follwing command to uninstall Vue CLI:
# npm
npm uninstall -g @vue/cli
# yarn
yarn global remove @vue/cli
Reinstall Package
Have a look at the structure of installing global package:
# npm
npm install -g PACKAGE_NAME@latest
# yarn
yarn global add PACKAGE_NAME@latest
Example:
# npm
npm install -g @vue/cli@latest
# yarn
yarn global add @vue/cli@latest
Note: You may need to run the command as sudo
on macOS or Linux distros. Like:
sudo npm uninstall -g PACKAGE_NAME
sudo npm install -g PACKAGE_NAME@latest
That’s it. Thanks for reading.
Md Obydullah
Software Engineer | Ethical Hacker & Cybersecurity...
Md Obydullah is a software engineer and full stack developer specialist at Laravel, Django, Vue.js, Node.js, Android, Linux Server, and Ethichal Hacking.