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Projectlens v1.0.6 released, supports npkill

Projectlens v1.0.6 has been released, adding support for npkill. The package helps manage Node.js projects by locating and removing node_modules directories to free up disk space.

Background

Projectlens is an open-source CLI (command-line) tool for finding and removing stale node_modules folders from a system. `node_modules` is the directory where Node.js (a popular JavaScript runtime) stores dependencies for each project; these folders can become extremely large over time as projects accumulate. The tool `npkill` (also mentioned in the release) is a well-known interactive utility for the same task. The v1.0.6 release adds integration/support for `npkill`, meaning Projectlens can now work alongside or delegate cleanup to npkill's interface. This matters because JavaScript/Node.js developers often have dozens of abandoned projects whose `node_modules` folders waste gigabytes of disk space, and tools like these help reclaim it.

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