Consider replacing del with its dependency rimraf

[live627]

The current version of rimraf supports globs, so one could just add an asterisk to the end of the folder, like so:

diff --git a/lib/cli.js b/lib/cli.js
index 3f9974732..d50f08624 100644
--- a/lib/cli.js
+++ b/lib/cli.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import process from 'node:process';
 
 import arrify from 'arrify';
 import ciParallelVars from 'ci-parallel-vars';
-import del from 'del';
+import rimraf from 'rimraf';
 import figures from 'figures';
 import yargs from 'yargs';
 import {hideBin} from 'yargs/helpers'; // eslint-disable-line node/file-extension-in-import
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ export default async function loadCli() { // eslint-disable-line complexity
 		const cacheDir = path.join(projectDir, 'node_modules', '.cache', 'ava');
 
 		try {
-			const deletedFilePaths = await del('*', {cwd: cacheDir});
+			const deletedFilePaths = rimraf(path.join(cacheDir, '*'));
 
 			if (deletedFilePaths.length === 0) {
 				console.log(`\n${chalk.green(figures.tick)} No cache files to remove`);

--- a/test-tap/api.js
+++ b/test-tap/api.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';
 
 import ciInfo from 'ci-info';
-import del from 'del';
+import rimraf from 'rimraf';
 import {test} from 'tap';
 
 import Api from '../lib/api.js';
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ for (const opt of options) {
 	});
 
 	test(`caching can be disabled - workerThreads: ${opt.workerThreads}`, async t => {
-		del.sync(path.join(__dirname, 'fixture/caching/node_modules'));
+		rimraf.sync(path.join(__dirname, 'fixture/caching/node_modules'));
 
 		const api = await apiCreator({
 			...opt,

Could this be simplified?

del@6.0.0 (44 deps, 809.26kb, 342 files)
├─┬ globby@11.1.0 (23 deps, 576.5kb, 238 files)
│ ├── array-union@2.1.0 (3.09kb, 5 files)
│ ├─┬ dir-glob@3.0.1 (1 dep, 10.57kb, 9 files)
│ │ ╰── path-type@4.0.0 (5.28kb, 5 files)
│ ├─┬ fast-glob@3.2.11 (17 deps, 490.43kb, 206 files)
│ │ ├── @nodelib/fs.stat@2.0.5 (11.57kb, 15 files)
│ │ ├─┬ @nodelib/fs.walk@1.2.8 (6 deps, 120.09kb, 96 files)
│ │ │ ├─┬ @nodelib/fs.scandir@2.1.5 (3 deps, 47.78kb, 47 files)
│ │ │ │ ├── @nodelib/fs.stat@2.0.5 (🔗, 11.57kb, 15 files)
│ │ │ │ ╰─┬ run-parallel@1.2.0 (1 dep, 14.58kb, 9 files)
│ │ │ │   ╰── queue-microtask@1.2.3 (8.17kb, 5 files)
│ │ │ ╰─┬ fastq@1.13.0 (1 dep, 46.54kb, 24 files)
│ │ │   ╰── reusify@1.0.4 (9.22kb, 10 files)
│ │ ├─┬ glob-parent@5.1.2 (2 deps, 31.21kb, 13 files)
│ │ │ ╰── is-glob@4.0.3 (🔗, 1 dep, 19.36kb, 8 files)
│ │ ├── merge2@1.4.1 (🔗, 8.69kb, 4 files)
│ │ ╰─┬ micromatch@4.0.4 (5 deps, 243.77kb, 38 files)
│ │   ├─┬ braces@3.0.2 (3 deps, 95.84kb, 23 files)
│ │   │ ╰─┬ fill-range@7.0.1 (2 deps, 47.76kb, 12 files)
│ │   │   ╰─┬ to-regex-range@5.0.1 (1 dep, 31.79kb, 8 files)
│ │   │     ╰── is-number@7.0.0 (9.39kb, 4 files)
│ │   ╰── picomatch@2.3.1 (87.84kb, 10 files)
│ ├── ignore@5.2.0 (47.72kb, 6 files)
│ ├── merge2@1.4.1 (8.69kb, 4 files)
│ ╰── slash@3.0.0 (🔗, 3.42kb, 5 files)
├── graceful-fs@4.2.9 (30.86kb, 7 files)
├─┬ is-glob@4.0.3 (1 dep, 19.36kb, 8 files)
│ ╰── is-extglob@2.1.1 (6.07kb, 4 files)
├── is-path-cwd@2.2.0 (2.7kb, 5 files)
├── is-path-inside@3.0.3 (4.02kb, 5 files)
├─┬ p-map@4.0.0 (3 deps, 24.69kb, 20 files)
│ ╰─┬ aggregate-error@3.1.0 (2 deps, 16.21kb, 15 files)
│   ├── clean-stack@2.2.0 (5.38kb, 5 files)
│   ╰── indent-string@4.0.0 (4.29kb, 5 files)
├─┬ rimraf@3.0.2 (12 deps, 158.96kb, 62 files)
│ ╰─┬ glob@7.2.0 (11 deps, 142.04kb, 56 files)
│   ├── fs.realpath@1.0.0 (13.12kb, 5 files)
│   ├─┬ inflight@1.0.6 (3 deps, 13.41kb, 16 files)
│   │ ├── once@1.4.0 (🔗, 1 dep, 6.84kb, 8 files)
│   │ ╰── wrappy@1.0.2 (2.89kb, 4 files)
│   ├── inherits@2.0.4 (3.87kb, 5 files)
│   ├─┬ minimatch@3.0.4 (3 deps, 54.66kb, 20 files)
│   │ ╰─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.11 (2 deps, 22.32kb, 16 files)
│   │   ├── balanced-match@1.0.2 (6.78kb, 5 files)
│   │   ╰── concat-map@0.0.1 (4.75kb, 7 files)
│   ├─┬ once@1.4.0 (1 dep, 6.84kb, 8 files)
│   │ ╰── wrappy@1.0.2 (2.89kb, 4 files)
│   ╰── path-is-absolute@1.0.1 (3.53kb, 4 files)
╰── slash@3.0.0 (3.42kb, 5 files)

I already have a commit lined up.

[live627]

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/57866165/4710434

recursive rmdir uses rimraf internally as can be seen in pull request nodejs/node/pull/29168

fs.rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });

Added in: v14.14.0

[sindresorhus]

I think it's better to just wait until AVA can target Node.js 14 and use the native fs.rm method with recursive option.

[novemberborn]

That'll be in a few months time actually.

We don't tend to keep issues open for this purpose though so I'll close for now.