How to remove module after “require” in node.js?

Question

Let say, after I require a module and do something as below:

var b = require(\'./b.js\');
--- do something with b ---

Then I want to take a

Answer 1

I have found the easiest way to handle invalidating the cache is actually to reset the exposed cache object. When deleting individual entries from the cache, the child dependencies become a bit troublesome to iterate through.

require.cache = {};