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Recursive Directory Removal in Node.js

by Christopher Hiller

Recursive directory removal has landed in Node.js v12.10.0!

This has been a long-standing feature request.  New Node.js developers often express incredulity  when they discover this particular “battery” isn’t included in Node.js.

Over the years, userland modules (rimraf, rmdir, del, fs-extra, etc.) have heroically provided

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node.js, rimraf, cli
Sep 09, 2019

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"boneskull" is the alias of Christopher Hiller. This is his blog. Maintainer of Mocha, a JS testing framework. Dev Advocate in Node.js @ IBM. Shenanigans & opinions his own. Also a lizard person.

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