SharePoint Online: Delete All Files and Sub-Folders from a Folder Recursively using PowerShell

Requirement: Empty a Folder in SharePoint Online document library by deleting all its files and Sub-Folders recursively.

PowerShell to Delete All Files and Sub-Folders from a SharePoint Online Folder

#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

#Function to Delete all files and Sub-folders of a given Folder
Function Empty-SPOFolder([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Folder]$Folder)
{
    Try {
        #Get All Files from the Folder
        $Ctx = $Folder.Context
        $Files = $Folder.Files
        $Ctx.Load($Files)
        $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
        #Iterate through each File in the Root folder
        Foreach($File in $Files)
        {
            #Delete the file
            $Folder.Files.GetByUrl($File.ServerRelativeUrl).Recycle() | Out-Null
            Write-host -f Green "Deleted File '$($File.Name)' from '$($File.ServerRelativeURL)'"
        }
        $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
        #Process all Sub Folders of the given folder
        $SubFolders = $Folder.Folders
        $Ctx.Load($SubFolders)
        $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
        Foreach($Folder in $SubFolders)
        {
            #Exclude "Forms" and Hidden folders
            If( ($Folder.Name -ne "Forms") -and (-Not($Folder.Name.StartsWith("_"))))
            {
                #Call the function recursively to empty the folder
                Empty-SPOFolder -Folder $Folder

                #Delete the folder
                $Ctx.Web.GetFolderById($Folder.UniqueId).Recycle() | Out-Null
                $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
                Write-host  -f Green "Deleted Folder:"$Folder.ServerRelativeUrl
            }
        }
    }
    Catch {
    write-host -f Red "Error:" $_.Exception.Message
    }
}

#Variables
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/Sites/Marketing"
$ServerRelativeUrl= "/Sites/Marketing/Project Documents/2018"

Try {
    #Get Credentials to connect
    $Cred= Get-Credential

    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
  
    #Get the web from URL
    $Web = $Ctx.web
    $Ctx.Load($Web)
    $Ctx.executeQuery()

    #Get the Folder object by Server Relative URL
    $Folder = $Web.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl($ServerRelativeUrl)
    $Ctx.Load($Folder)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery() 

    #Call the function to empty Folder
    Empty-SPOFolder $Folder

    #Delete the given Folder itself
    Write-host  -f Green "Deleting Folder:"$Folder.ServerRelativeUrl
    $Folder.Recycle() | Out-Null
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery() 
}
Catch {
    write-host -f Red "Error:" $_.Exception.Message
} 

This PowerShell script deletes all files, sub-folders of a folder and then deletes the given folder too.