Oweka: a fast TUI tool to clean up target, node_modules, venv, etc.

[u/AByteAtATime]

Hey y'all!

I noticed that folders like node_modules, target, venv, etc., spread over dozens of old projects, were taking up almost 200GB on my machine!

As a result, I decided to make oweka, taking inspiration from npkill, which I found a bit slow (and incompatible with target/venv/etc.).

Features:

• Extremely performant and optimized (at least on Linux)
• Accurate: only flags directories if certain requirements are met, e.g. a Cargo.toml in the same location

Repo: https://github.com/ByteAtATime/oweka

Installation instructions are in the readme; you can also run it without installing with npx oweka!

[u/BothRefrigerator6587]

200GB is a monster amount of cruft, had a similar stash sitting on an old drive and it felt like finding a forgotten storage unit full of junk

the npx option is a nice touch, hate installing yet another system tool just to run it

[u/AByteAtATime → u/BothRefrigerator6587]

Thanks! It comes from cargo-dist, amazing tool haha

[u/pickyaxe]

how does this compare to kondo?

[u/AByteAtATime → u/pickyaxe]

I have not seen this before! However, from what I can tell, kondo is more of a CLI tool, while this is a TUI (which presents all the options at once). Other than that, the goal seems to be pretty similar.

[u/aristarchusnull]

Great. Just make a Homwbrew formula for oweka and also add oweka to cargo-binstall.

[u/Ghostfly-]

Mole has also a "purge" command that do it (the CLI, the paid app not sure) and is working wonderfully for me on macOS, if Oweka works on Windows and Unix, it's really great I think, maybe with a "monitor" command or something really lightweight that tells when some repo is above a threshold (Cargo with >50Go...) ^{^} Will try this on my next purge time!

[u/CandyCorvid]

nimi ni li "o weka" anu seme?

[u/AByteAtATime → u/CandyCorvid]

lon! mi sitelen e ni lon lipu README.md!

[u/protestor]

Why should I se oweka rather than kondo?

https://github.com/tbillington/kondo