DevShedder is a specialized tool designed to help developers maintain a clean and efficient workspace by automatically detecting and removing unnecessary directories such as node_modules, vendor, and various log directories from their projects.
The primary goal of DevShedder is to free up disk space and reduce clutter in development environments by safely removing directories that are often large and regenerated easily, such as dependencies from Node.js or PHP Composer and log files from Symfony projects.
- Selective Cleaning: Targets specific directories (
node_modules,vendor,var/log) based on the project type. - Project Detection: Automatically detects the type of project by looking for key files (
package.json,composer.json,symfony.lock). - Safe Deletion: Offers a dry run mode to preview deletions without performing them.
- User Confirmation: Requires user confirmation before deletion if not in dry run mode, to prevent accidental data loss.
- Error Handling: Gracefully handles errors like permission denials and continues operation, logging issues to the stderr in red color for visibility.
DevShedder can be installed either by downloading a pre-compiled binary from github releases or by building it from the source.
Clone the repository and build the binary using Go:
git clone https://github.com/sarim/devshedder.git
cd devshedder
go buildTo clean up your workspace directory:
./devshedder /path/to/your/workspace/directoryTo perform a dry run and see what would be deleted without actual deletion:
./devshedder -dry-run /path/to/your/workspace/directoryIf you run without the dry-run option, DevShedder will ask for confirmation before proceeding with deletions:
Are you sure you want to proceed with deletions? (y/n):Type y to proceed or n to cancel.
Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit pull requests with your enhancements, or open issues for bugs and feature requests.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
DevShedder is developed and maintained by Sarim Khan.