What is the correct way to uninstall a app installed using npx?

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I want to remove a package reinstalled with npx.

I tried removing the package from where it's installed (C:\Users\vince\AppData\Roaming\npm) by deleting manually the ps1, bat and the package folder and it still didn't worked.

I tried to remove it using npx react-devtools --remove and it still didn't got removed(NPX Didn't showed any output indicating that it sucessfully removed react-devtools). Here is how the command look:

PS C:\Users\vince\project\js\tinder-cli> npx react-devtools --remove

I expect npx to remove react-devtools with a sucess message or something like a sucess message.

The epic face 007 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-12 16:10:19Z

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I uninstall the package by deleting all the content of the directory: C:\Users\vince\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx

answered Apr 12, 2021 at 16:10

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Simone Scanzoni · Accepted Answer · 2025-11-08 16:00:16Z

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I think the clean way to remove selected packages installed using npx is to first find their keys with:

npm cache npx ls

You'll get something like:

0dd5ae94e53e6f06: @eslint/migrate-config
1415fee72ff6294b: create-vite@latest
1d6e82a4126006c4: (empty/invalid)
81f7a6092050d914: [email protected]
917ffaa823e769de: @eslint/mcp@latest
9e26927975f330cf: @rage-against-the-pixel/unity-cli
abdb4b598af046c4: (unknown)

Then you can remove the packages by the keys with, for example:

npm cache npx rm 1d6e82a4126006c4 abdb4b598af046c4

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