knip

Knip finds and fixes unused dependencies, exports and files in your JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Less code and dependencies lead to improved performance, less maintenance and easier refactorings.

• Website: knip.dev
• GitHub repo: webpro-nl/knip
• Official npm packages: knip, @knip/create-config, @knip/language-server, @knip/mcp
• Knip on the VS Code Marketplace, Knip on the Open VSX Registry
• Contributing Guide
• Follow @webpro.nl on Bluesky for updates
• Sponsor Knip!

Contributors

Special thanks to the wonderful people who have contributed to Knip!

Knip

/'knɪp/ means "(to) cut" and is pronounced with a hard "K" 🇳🇱

License

Knip is free and open-source software licensed under the ISC License.

Parts of Knip have been inspired by and/or partially copy code from the following projects:

• @npmcli/package-json (ISC)
• @pnpm/deps.graph-sequencer (MIT)
• file-entry-cache (MIT)
• json-parse-even-better-errors (MIT)

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