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If I run npm ls at the top level of my project, I get a number of extraneous errors. I tried running npm prune but when I run npm ls again the packages are still there.

How do I remove those extraneous packages?

I have package-lock file and I'm running npm 6.4.1.

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  • Just a note for others arriving from search engines: npm prune is the command you're looking for and it should remove extra packages (and did in my case). Commented Jun 7, 2023 at 20:35

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First, did you do a npm i to be sure to install all the packages? You can also delete your node_modules folder and your package-lock.json file to have a clean install.

Then if you want to remove packages, you need to npm uninstall them or manually remove them from your package.json file, then re-do a npm i.

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I did run npm install initially. I also deleted the node_modules directory but not the package-lock.json file. Wouldn't prune update packages.json and package-lock.json?
@ventsyv so does it work if you manually delete package-lock.json and manually remove the unwanted modules from package.json ? I'm not quite sure about npm prune
That did it but now when I run npm ls a get a large number of missing packets and 102 vulnerabilities?
can you post your package.json?

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