Remove plugins with vue-cli3

Question

Is there a way to remove plugins and its configuration with vue-cli3 in an existing project? For example I want to replace unit test plugin Mocha with Jest. I know how to add and invoke a new plugin but I cannot find how to remove one. Is it possible with vue-cli or do I need to do it manually?

Solution 1

I've asked about this (How does one uninstall a plugin? #2540) and it appears the current official advice is to issue an npm uninstall X.

Solution 2

I think you can just go to your package.json and remove the entry for the plugin/package,

delete the directory of your node_modules,

and then run.

npm install

Solution 3

It looks like you need to do it manually, I cannot find anything in the docs or CLI help that mentions removal of plugins. It is slightly more complicated than @alexandre-canijo says though. Besides the package.json there may be some config in your project folder. Check the src/plugins folder, and main.js.

The documentation

Solution 4

Delete the vuetify stuff[1] from your package.json and then run:

npm prune

[1] Dependency vuetify and dev dependencies vue-cli-plugin-vuetify, vuetify-loader...

Solution 5

You have to do it manually. It worked for me.

In my case, I just removed the plugin ("vue-cli-plugin-quasar": "^2.0.1",) from devDependencies in package.json and ran npm install.

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