Mern teardown

Skill edfenton/claude-skills/mern/mern-teardown

A collection of Claude Code skills for iOS, MERN, NEAN, and shared development workflows

Install

npx -y skills add edfenton/claude-skills --skill mern-teardown

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Tear down a MERN project — delete local files and optionally delete the GitHub repo.

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Purpose

Completely tear down a MERN project created by /mern-kit. Deletes all local files. By default, keeps the GitHub repo for reference — use --delete-repo to remove it too.

Arguments

--delete-repo — Also delete the GitHub repository (default: keep it)

Prerequisites

Must be run from inside the project directory (or provide the path)
gh CLI authenticated (if --delete-repo)

Teardown steps

1. Detect project

Confirm this is a MERN project by checking for:

turbo.json
apps/web/
packages/shared/

If any are missing, warn and ask the user to confirm before proceeding.

Record the project root (absolute path) for later deletion.

2. Detect GitHub remote

git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null

If a remote exists, extract owner/repo from the URL
If no remote, skip GitHub steps

3. Show summary and confirm

Display exactly what will happen:

Project: /path/to/my-app
GitHub:  owner/repo (will be DELETED | will be KEPT)

This will permanently delete:
  - All local files in /path/to/my-app
  [- GitHub repository owner/repo (if --delete-repo)]

Type the project name to confirm: _

Do NOT proceed without explicit confirmation.

4. Delete GitHub repo (if --delete-repo)

gh repo delete owner/repo --yes

If this fails (permissions, network), stop and report — do not continue to local deletion so the user can retry.

5. Delete local project

cd ..
rm -rf /absolute/path/to/project

Use the absolute path recorded in step 1. Never use relative paths.

6. Confirm completion

Report what was deleted:

Local directory: deleted
GitHub repo: deleted / kept (with URL if kept)

Safety

Always confirm before destructive operations
Show the full absolute path that will be deleted
Never delete parent directories or anything outside the project root
If GitHub deletion fails, stop — don't leave the user with a deleted local copy and a still-existing repo they can't find