Drupal 8: delete all nodes of the same type

Question

I have a need to remove all nodes of the same type in Drupal 8 (there are over 7k of nodes).

It wouldn\'t be a problem for Drupal 7 (DB query + node_del

Answer 1

For Drupal 9.0 works fine

  $ids = \Drupal::entityQuery('node')
    ->condition('type', 'article')
    ->execute();

  $storage_handler = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage("node");
  $entities = $storage_handler->loadMultiple($ids);
  $storage_handler->delete($entities);