Is there a way to remove unused imports and declarations from Angular 2+?

Question

I\'m assigned to take some messed code from other developers who have already left the company recently.

I am curiously asking is there some plug-in of Visual Studio

Answer 1

To be able to detect unused imports, code or variables, make sure you have this options in tsconfig.json file

"compilerOptions": {
    "noUnusedLocals": true,
    "noUnusedParameters": true
}

have the typescript compiler installed, ifnot install it with:

npm install -g typescript

and the tslint extension installed in Vcode, this worked for me, but after enabling I notice an increase amount of CPU usage, specially on big projects.

I would also recomend using typescript hero extension for organizing your imports.