ts-prune

Find potentially unused exports in your Typescript project with zero configuration.

Getting Started

ts-prune exposes a cli that reads your tsconfig file and prints out all the unused exports in your source files.

Installing

Install ts-prune with yarn or npm

# npm
npm install ts-prune --save-dev
# yarn
yarn add -D ts-prune

Usage

You can install it in your project and alias it to a npm script in package.json.

{
  "scripts": {
    "find-deadcode": "ts-prune"
  }
}

If you want to run against different Typescript configuration than tsconfig.json:

ts-prune -p tsconfig.dev.json

Examples

• gatsby-material-starter
• DestinyItemManager

Configuration

ts-prune supports CLI and file configuration via cosmiconfig (all file formats are supported).

Configuration options

• -p, --project - tsconfig.json path(tsconfig.json by default)
• -i, --ignore - errors ignore RegExp pattern
• -e, --error - return error code if unused exports are found
• -s, --skip - skip these files when determining whether code is used. (For example, .test.ts? will stop ts-prune from considering an export in test file usages)

CLI configuration options:

ts-prune -p my-tsconfig.json -i my-component-ignore-patterns?

Configuration file example .ts-prunerc:

{
  "ignore": "my-component-ignore-patterns?"
}

FAQ

How do I get the count of unused exports?

ts-prune | wc -l

How do I ignore a specific path?

You can either,

1. Use the -i, --ignore configuration option:

ts-prune --ignore 'src/ignore-this-path'

2. Use grep -v to filter the output:

ts-prune | grep -v src/ignore-this-path

How do I ignore multiple paths?

You can either,

1. Use the -i, --ignore configuration option:

ts-prune --ignore 'src/ignore-this-path|src/also-ignore-this-path'

2. Use multiple grep -v to filter the output:

ts-prune | grep -v src/ignore-this-path | grep -v src/also-ignore-this-path

How do I ignore a specific identifier?

You can either,

1. Prefix the export with // ts-prune-ignore-next

// ts-prune-ignore-next
export const thisNeedsIgnoring = foo;

2. Use grep -v to ignore a more widely used export name

ts-prune | grep -v ignoreThisThroughoutMyCodebase

Acknowledgements

• The excellent ts-morph library. And this gist by @dsherret.

Contributors

Nadeesha Cabral	Snyk bot	Dan Vanderkam	Josh Goldberg	Vitaly Iegorov	Amir Arad
Caleb Peterson	David Graham	Davis Ford	Ivo Raisr	Jacob Bandes-Storch	Kristján Oddsson
Mikhail Belyaev	Reece Daniels	Simon Jang	The Gitter Badger	Tim Bodeit	Tim Saunders
Torkel Rogstad	Victor Nogueira	William Candillon	curtvict	phiresky