🛠️ How to remove unwanted or unused plugins from Angular or node project?

 Here’s a simple approach to find and remove unused dependencies in your Ionic 3 & Angular 5 app:

Steps to Remove Unused Dependencies

1. Identify Unused Dependencies

Use the depcheck tool to check which dependencies are unused.

Install depcheck globally

npm install -g depcheck

Run depcheck in your project root

depcheck

It will list:

• Unused dependencies (can be removed)
• Missing dependencies (need to be installed)

2. Remove Unused Dependencies

Once identified, uninstall them:

npm uninstall package-name

Or remove multiple at once:

npm uninstall package1 package2 package3

3. Check Cordova Plugins

Run:

cordova plugin list

Manually remove unnecessary plugins:

cordova plugin remove plugin-name

4. Clean node_modules and Reinstall

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json  
npm install

5. Optimize Your Build

Run:

npm run build --prod

to ensure performance improvements.