I am not able to uninstall nodejs. After I got the error module not found “node-uuid”

Question

I tried to install angular2 quickstart https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/setup.html#!#develop-locally Then I got the error node-uuid module not found. I tried following these links https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/15310 but its not working :( .

Error: Cannot find module 'node-uuid'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\lib\auth.js:4:12)

    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

Please let me know how to get npm install work again.

Answer 1

Most NPM issues can be fixed with this process :

In your project

rm -rf /node_modules

npm cache clean

Find your global node_modules

You can run npm list -g to see where global libraries are installed.

On Unix systems they are normally placed in /usr/local/lib/node or /usr/local/lib/node_modules when installed globally. If you set the NODE_PATH environment variable to this path, the modules can be found by node.

Windows XP - %USERPROFILE%\\Application Data\\npm\\node_modules

Windows 7 [ - 10] - %AppData%\\npm\\node_modules

rm -rf /node_modules

Back to your project

npm install