CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to the "Find Unused Exports" extension will be documented in this file.

Note

This extension assumes a set of default exclude folders:

• **/*.d.ts
• node_modules/**/*
• **/node_modules/**/*

1.0.0 (2020-07-01)

Added

• Automatically find all exports and imports in .ts and .tsx files
• Automatically find all exports and imports in .js and .jsx files, if tsconfig.json allows for .js files in project
• All imports from node modules are ignored
• The test files are ignored, hence the exports used only by unit tests will be displayed as not used
• If tsconfig.json defines baseUrl, it will resolve all imports using paths relative to baseUrl
• A file having all exports not used will be marked as "not used" and a delete button will be available
• If there are no unused exports, then the panel will display an entry saying this

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.0.1 (2020-09-06)

Added

• Detect export interface

Changed

• Update packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.0.2 (2020-09-21)

Added

• Detect export function

Changed

• Update packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.0.3 (2020-10-06)

Added

• Detect aliased imports and exports

Changed

• Update packages
• Fixed the detection of "export * as"

Removed

• Nothing

1.1.0 (2020-12-02)

Added

• Added support for logging in an output window all executed steps (default false - no logging in the output window)
• Added support for ignoring not used exports via comments (default false - obey the comment in the code)

  // find-unused-exports:ignore-next-line-exports
  export default MyClass;

• Added the possibility to remove a file or export from the list of results

Changed

• Update packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.1.1 (2020-12-02)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Removed the hide action icon when no unused export is found

Removed

• Nothing

1.1.2 (2020-12-03)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Corrected the analyse of the js projects
• Corrected the analyse of the ts projects with allowJs enabled in tsconfig.json

Removed

• Nothing

1.2.0 (2020-12-22)

Added

• Added support for exported consts and types via object destructuring

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.3.0 (2020-12-23)

Added

• Added support for detection of circular imports/dependences, which produce undefined variables by import

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.3.1 (2020-12-23)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Clicking on a circular dependency in panel will open it in editor

Removed

• Nothing

1.3.2 (2020-12-23)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Debug code

1.3.3 (2020-12-24)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Made the check for circular dependencies by default to be disabled

Removed

• Nothing

1.3.4 (2020-12-24)

Added

• Log of the ellapsed time used to analyse the project
• Remove the comments from tsconfig.json before validating it as JSON

Changed

• Improved the performance of circular dependecies

Removed

• Nothing

1.3.5 (2020-12-27)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Removed the detection of circular dependencies because of the poor performance

1.4.0 (2021-01-11)

Added

• Added the detection of circular dependencies using a new algorithm
• Added the possibility to display the results initially expanded (instead of collapsed)

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.4.1 (2021-01-12)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Clicking on a file name will search for the name of the first circular dependency (if any)

Removed

• Nothing

1.4.2 (2021-02-15)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed the crash on folders having .js or .ts as extension
• Updated packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.4.3 (2021-02-28)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Updated packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.4.4 (2021-04-23)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Avoiding reporting empty paths as circular paths

Removed

• Nothing

1.5.0 (2021-05-21)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Corrected the rules used to find the files containing code
• Corrected the rule for removing the comments from .json files

Removed

• Nothing

1.6.0 (2021-05-21)

Added

• Added support for "export let" and "export var"
• Added support for "import type"
• Added support for "import * as"
• Added a test-project for improving the testing

Changed

• The algorithm for detecting the not used exports

Removed

• Nothing

1.7.0 (2021-05-25)

Added

• Added a test-project for js for improving the testing

Changed

• The algorithm for detecting the use of exports imported through "import" or "required"

Removed

• Nothing

1.7.1 (2021-05-25)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed bug introduced with 1.7.0: "import as name" no longer mark export as being used
• Any folder in tsconfig.json's "include" whithout glob characters will be assumed to mean all files in all subfolders of that folder
• Improved the test projects

Removed

• Nothing

1.8.0 (2021-06-06)

Added

• The logging can also be saved in a file (.vscode/find-unused-exports.log)
• Logging for almost all steps of the algorithm, so that detection of bottlenecks to be easier

Changed

• The regular expression for detecting the imports

Removed

• Nothing

1.9.0 (2021-08-29)

Added

• Detect imports/exports of generator functions
• Detect exports of destructured assignments
• Try to read the configuration from jsconfig.json if tsconfig.json is missing

Changed

• Consider an export from a file as both an import and an export, which fixes the problem of reporting re-exported entities as not being used
• Quicker scan of the files for imports and exports definitions

Removed

• Nothing

1.10.0 (2021-09-04)

Added

• Added support to skip additional files via a declaration in package.json or .findUnusedExports.json

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.10.1 (2021-10-10)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Added a protection to catch the crash on "TypeError: Cannot read property 'charAt' of undefined"

Removed

• Nothing

1.10.2 (2021-10-10)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Repackaged the extension

Removed

• Nothing

1.10.3 (2021-11-26)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.11.0 (2021-11-26)

Added

• Support for import { type BaseType } from ... from typescript 4.5

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.11.1 (2021-11-28)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Correctly ignoring specified files on windows

Removed

• Nothing

1.11.2 (2022-02-04)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.12.0 (2022-02-14)

Added

• Support including additional globs via .findUnusedExports.json

Changed

• Using the production icons from VS Code
• Using three panels for Overview, Unused exports and Circular imports

Removed

• Nothing

1.12.1 (2022-02-14)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Corrected the numbers displayed for "Not used exports" and "Found circular imports" in OVERVIEW

Removed

• Nothing

1.12.2 (2022-02-14)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Re-added wrongly removed icons

Removed

• Nothing

1.13.0 (2022-02-14)

Added

• Any error trying to parse a JSON file is reported in OVERVIEW
• All include and exclude globs are displayed in OVERVIEW

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.14.0 (2022-02-16)

Added

• Display the used glob instead of the defined glob
• Display the number of matched files for an include glob

Changed

• Fixed the bug which used exclude as include from packageJson's findUnusedExports field

Removed

• Nothing

1.14.1 (2022-02-18)

Added

• Display which exclude globs are added by this extension (marked as default)

Changed

• Using the "default" exclude globs only for include globs from jsconfig.json or tsconfig.json (they end in .js(x) or .ts(x))
  • This is a fix to be able to find imports done only in default excluded files of exports done in included files (like an import in a .d.ts file for an export done in a typescript file)

Removed

• Nothing

1.15.0 (2022-02-23)

Added

• Support for workspaces

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.15.1 (2022-02-24)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Changed the use of default exclude globs and documented them in README.md file

Removed

• Nothing

1.15.2 (2022-02-25)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Small improvement in README.md file

Removed

• Nothing

1.15.3 (2022-04-07)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed the removal of folders from treeview when they are deleted and their parent is hidden
• The root folder in circular imports is no longer hidden if there is only one folder left displayed

Removed

• Nothing

1.16.0 (2022-06-19)

Added

• Support for TypeScript 4.7 compilerOptions.moduleSuffixes option from tsconfig.json
• Support link for extension's author (https://www.patreon.com/iulian_radu_at)

Changed

• Updated packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.17.0 (2022-09-25)

Added

• Display in status bar if the extension is updating the list of exports and circular imports

Changed

• Updated packages
• The windows path is displayed in a posix format in debug window as glob 8 is using posix format for path also in windows ("/" instead of "\")

Removed

• Nothing

1.18.0 (2022-09-25)

Added

• The exports made in the file defined in the main field of package.json can be considered used (needs to be enabled via a setting of this extension)

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.18.1 (2022-09-26)

Added

• Protection to multiple unused exports with the same name but different types

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.18.2 (2022-10-23)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.18.3 (2022-10-23)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.19.0 (2022-11-23)

Added

• It is possible to define globs, file names or workspaces to be ignored for unused exports

Changed

• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

1.19.1 (2022-12-15)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed bug creating empty configuration file
• A file containing only unused exports can be added now to the list of ignored files

Removed

• Nothing

1.20.0 (2023-02-08)

Added

• Support for mapping paths

Changed

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

1.21.0 (2023-04-27)

Added

• Ignoring all template strings so it no longer produces false positives for imports/exports found in them

Changed

• The minimum VSCode version must be 1.75.0
• Using an improved version of glob (which is used to find files)
• The extension is activated only when visiting the corresponding view or its command is run

Removed

• Nothing

1.21.1 (2023-05-07)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed the bug introduced with the use of the glob 10

Removed

• Nothing

1.21.2 (2023-05-07)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Fixed all circular imports in project

Removed

• Nothing

2.0.0 (2023-06-10)

Added

• Nothing

Breaking changes

• If there are defined include rules in package.json or .findUnusedExports.json then the default include glob rule and the files and include from tsconfig.json or jsconfig.json are no longer applied
• If there are defined exclude rules in package.json or .findUnusedExports.json then the default exclude glob rule and the exclude from tsconfig.json or jsconfig.json are no longer applied

Removed

• Reporting "Multiple unused exports with the same name"

2.0.1 (2023-06-10)

Added

• Nothing

Changes

• Fixed the badges

Removed

• Nothing

2.1.1 (2023-09-22)

Added

• Nothing

Changes

• Displays in view when it is doing the refresh
• Drastically reduced the size of the file packing this extension

Removed

• The "Find unused exports" in status bar

2.1.2 (2024-03-17)

Added

• Test project for aliased paths

Changes

• Fixed the detection of not used types from export { type TYPE }
• Fixed the detection of not used types from export type { TYPE }
• Fixed the detection of paths aliases usage
• Updated the packages

Removed

• Nothing

2.1.3 (2024-04-10)

Added

• Nothing

Changes

• Updated the links

Removed

• Nothing

2.1.4 (2024-04-10)

Added

• Nothing

Changes

• Added emojies to output messages

Removed

• Nothing

2.1.5 (2024-09-01)

Added

• Write in log the list of unused exports

Changes

• Fixed the number of not used exports reported in logs
• The link for support
• Updated the packages
• Optimized the imports

Removed

• Nothing