bradwestfall/Remove Node and NPM on OS X.md

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sudo npm uninstall npm -g
brew uninstall node

Then

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d /usr/local/lib/node_modules /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/nodemon /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/include/node ~/.npm* ~/.node* /usr/local/share/man/*/node* /usr/local/share/man/*/npm*

Which removes the following

/usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
/usr/local/lib/node_modules
/usr/local/bin/npm
/usr/local/bin/nodemon
/usr/local/bin/node
/usr/local/include/node
~/.npm*
~/.node*
/usr/local/share/man/*/node*
/usr/local/share/man/*/npm*

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bradwestfall commented Nov 9, 2019

I just saved this (along with some of my other public gists) as notes to me. This worked for me with a Mac version a few years ago. Sorry it's not working now. I think I got this information by going around to lots of websites and kind of "averaging" all their best ideas. You might have to do something like that again for modern Mac

gmerabishvili commented Nov 9, 2019

@bradwestfall I finally managed to uninstall node on mac. Thank you!

derplak commented Jun 5, 2020 •

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Hi everyone here, I´ve had this same problem, searched a lot in Stack Overflow and Node.JS docs to fix this without make it, but today (while researched a bit more) founded this, is a "non code" solution but worked amazingly well and was much safer than running commands with exotic flags:

Deleting Node.JS from Mac computer

Hope this works to you too, that guy saved my day for sure!
(I´m on High Sierra)

riderrocks commented Apr 7, 2021

Hi everyone here, I´ve had this same problem, searched a lot in Stack Overflow and Node.JS docs to fix this without make it, but today (while researched a bit more) founded this, is a "non code" solution but worked amazingly well and was much safer than running commands with exotic flags:

Deleting Node.JS from Mac computer

Hope this works to you too, that guy saved my day for sure!
(I´m on High Sierra)

Thanks for sharing. It worked!

derplak commented Apr 26, 2021

Hi everyone here, I´ve had this same problem, searched a lot in Stack Overflow and Node.JS docs to fix this without make it, but today (while researched a bit more) founded this, is a "non code" solution but worked amazingly well and was much safer than running commands with exotic flags:
Deleting Node.JS from Mac computer
Hope this works to you too, that guy saved my day for sure!
(I´m on High Sierra)

Thanks for sharing. It worked!

Glad to read that brother, I´m planning to realease a front/back end public wiki with troubleshooting, if you are interested I´ll be posting the link in my GitHub profile 😉

lerocha commented Jun 29, 2021

Thanks for this script! It worked for me to uninstall node 14.17.1 from my mac! I only needed to exclude /usr/local/bin/nodemon from the list since this directory doesn't exist.