Completely uninstall node and NPM under Mac

With the NVM node version of the management, or is very convenient, each version of the switch freely, but the NVM installation of node is ~/.nvm under, and before the installation of not together, a bit obsessive-compulsive I, I want to uninstall the previous

Homebrew installation of

A direct command.
brew uninstall node

Download PKG installation package on official website

a command
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{bin/{node,npm},lib/node_modules/npm,lib/node,share/man/*/node.*}

Other path-installed

Make a script, put the files that need to be deleted, a shuttle all kill

The content is as follows, named: uninstallnode.sh

#!/bin/bashlsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom | while read i; do sudo rm /usr/local/${i}donesudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

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Modify file Permissions chmod 777 uninstallNodejs.sh
Executing at the command line

Tips:
When these things are erased, node is deleted.
But there are a bunch of software and command-line tools based on node installation that need to be reinstalled, such as react-native, SUPERVISOR,PM2 etc
Need to delete the /usr/local/bin following related files, in fact, they are just some soft connections, the main is in the /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ directory.
In the previous steps, it has been removed, but the TAB key can be found because these soft links still exist

Completely uninstall node and NPM under Mac