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Learn WebAssembly
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Learn WebAssembly

by Mike Rourke
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
9h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing rimraf

Some of the build steps defined in the Makefiles or VS Code Tasks delete files or directories. The commands required to delete a file or folder differ based on your platform and shell. To address this issue we'll use the rimraf npm package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf). Installing the package globally provides a rimraf command that performs the correct deletion operation for the operating system and shell.

To install rimraf, ensure that Node.js is installed and run the following command from a CLI:

npm install -g rimraf

To ensure that the installation was successful, run the following command:

rimraf --help

You should see usage instructions and a list of command line flags. Let's move on to the VS Code installation. ...

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ISBN: 9781788997379