Blazing fast, cross-platform TUI to safely clean up massive dependency folders from inactive projects.
As developers, we tend to accumulate dozens of abandoned side projects, cloned repos, and old experiments. Before you know it, folders like node_modules, Rust's target, or Python's .venv have quietly eaten up gigabytes of your hard drive space.
dev-sweeper is here to reclaim your disk space. It's like npkill, but built to sweep away the mess across multiple language ecosystems.
- 🚀 Blazing Fast: Built with a custom asynchronous crawler that ignores hidden directories (like
.git) and immediately stops recursing once a target is found. - 🌍 Multi-Ecosystem: Out of the box, it hunts down:
node_modules(JavaScript / TypeScript / Node)target(Rust / Cargo)venv/.venv(Python)vendor(PHP / Composer)
- 🖥️ Beautiful TUI: A sleek, interactive terminal UI powered by Ink.
- 🔒 Safe: It only calculates sizes and deletes folders when you explicitly tell it to.
You don't even need to install it globally. Just run it via npx anywhere in your terminal!
npx dev-sweepernpx dev-sweeper ~/ProjectsThe interface is completely interactive and works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
[ ↑ ] or [ ↓ ] |
Move the cursor up and down the list |
[ Space ] |
Delete the currently selected directory |
[ Q ] or [ Esc ] |
Quit the application |
Once you press Space, dev-sweeper will instantly wipe the directory and update your total "Space Saved" counter in real time.
- TypeScript
- Ink (React for CLI)
- fdir & native Node.js async filesystem APIs
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.