In this short article, I’m going to show how to uninstall and reinstall any global package of Node.js.

Table of Contents

1. Uninstall Any Package
2. Uninstall Vue CLI
3. Reinstall Package

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.