find dead JavaScript code?

Question

We are refactoring a legacy web app and as a result are \"killing\" quite a lot of JavaScript code but we\'re afraid of deleting what we think is dead code due to not being

Answer 1

Without looking for anything too complex:

• JSLint (not really a static analyzer, but if you give it your concatenated development code, you'll see what methods are never called, at least in obvious scoping contexts)
• Google Closure Compiler
• Google Closure Linter