Our agent couldn't find any inactive projects.

[amcc]

i'm frequently getting the message 'Our agent couldn't find any inactive projects.' on a folder containing many node projects and node_modules directories.

I'm not sure whats causing the error, however if i drill down into a specific folder containing a node_modules folder within my code directory it will find it. If I look at a folder that may contain for instance a node project folder as well as a wordpress folder and other it might come up with the above message.

I understand if the project isn't active right now, but perhaps someone has the same issue and can suggest a solution

[bntzio]

Hi @amcc, so no node_modules are getting removed?

Could you try running wipe-modules with the --dry flag to see what it finds?

wipe-modules ~/code 20 --dry

[amcc]

just ran this on a folder that contained 2 subfolders, one had a node module folder within it. The other had 2 more subfolders, one with 2 more folders each with a node modules folder, the other itself contained a node-modules folder.

so the structure looked like

• parent
  • react-twitter-apps
    • funador
      • react-auth-client (containes node-modules)
      • react-auth-server (contains node-modules)
    • react-twitter (contains node-modules)
  • twitter (contains node-modules)

So thats 4 node-modules folders total.

this is the output of the command:

 Our agent is examining your files... Hold on a sec. 

 The node_modules in the following directories can be wiped out: 

 twitter 

 1 node_modules were found! 

[bntzio]

Oh yeah, right now, the agent only looks and can remove node_modules at one-level depth, so the modules inside react-twitter-apps/funador and react-twitter-apps/react-twitter won't be detected, only the twitter one.

At the moment, wipe-modules isn't very active in terms of development but I'm seriously planning to make a v2 of this with lots of features in mind, one of those features is to support nested projects as well as monorepos, among other cool stuff (rewritten in typescript or python).

What do you think?

[amcc]

As soon as I posted that I figured out that it was a depth thing. That list painted a picture I couldn't figure out originally!

Mining down into folders would be so handy. I put projects into folders to tidy things up.

That single feature would do it for me. It's a fantastic thing other than that. A big issue for me is time machine and Google drive (also Dropbox etc) hating those folders