Project linter to find unused files, dependencies and exports in JavaScript and TypeScript projects

Anja Petry

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Knip is a tool that instantly detects dead code in projects. It can be easily installed and running it on CI helps keep projects clean.

Knip

Definitely going to give this a go soon. Thanks for sharing!

Knip is great. Helps target and remove unused code, which is often hard to do manually on larger projects

It can be problematic to correctly setup at first (many false-positives), but once you setup it correctly it works great.