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knip

✂️ Find unused files, dependencies and exports in your JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Knip it before you ship it!

Open on GitHub ↗created 2022-10-04updated 2026-09-16read 2026-09-17

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Knip is a linter-style tool that detects unused files, dependencies and exports in JavaScript and TypeScript projects. It analyzes your codebase to surface dead code and dependency-management issues.

Reach for it when you want to keep a JavaScript or TypeScript codebase free of unused files, dependencies and exports.

Use it to

Find unused dependencies in package.
Detect unused exports across a codebase
Locate dead files not referenced anywhere
Run dead-code checks in CI maintenance

For JavaScript and TypeScript developers maintaining codebases

Role: other
Language: TypeScript
Licence: ISC
Forks: 493
Open issues: 10
Last push: 2026-09-16
Latest release: 0.0.1 · 2022-10-04

topicsdependency-analysislintunused-codetypescriptjavascriptmaintenance