Feature: Adding node_modules for exclusion

[gabrielmoura]

Dear team.

The idea is to have the option of search the node_modules folders and deleting them, because for large projects that are still under development, waste accumulates easily.

I imagine it would be very useful for developers who are still using npm or yarn and see their storage being consumed by projects that may be paused.

Thanks in advance

[az0]

Put this CleanerML file in your BleachBit user profile cleaner directory. (To find the directory, click the link here and look for the section titled "Storage.")

Then, restart BleachBit to load the new cleaner.

I did not test this myself, and to be safe, please run a preview before deleting. Note: deep scan runs after all other options are finished.

<cleaner id="js_pkg_mgr">
  <label translate="true">JavaScript package managers</label>
  <description>npm, yarn, etc.</description>
  <option id="node_modules">
    <label>node_modules folders</label>
    <description>Delete the directories</description>
    <warning>This option is slow.</warning>
    <action command="walk.top" search="deep" type="d" regex="^\node_modules$"/>
  </option>
</cleaner>

Edit: I changed command.

How does this work?

[az0]

@gabrielmoura
Have you had a chance to test?

See also this comment for more instructions and a link to a file you can download