💡 ignoreImportsUsedInFiles: []

[tizmagik]

Suggest an idea for this project

It would be great to be able to specify specific files that shouldn't count as "usage" for a particular export.

In one of my projects, if the import is used in a particular file, we don't want it to count as it actually being used because it's a common place to import a long list of them to add some meta data/behavior, but it doesn't mean it will actually be used in the application code.

For example, deleting that specific file and re-running Knip would report the export as unused and that is the sort of the behavior we're looking for.

generated.ts

/* Generate file with a bunch of exports */
export FOO1 = "123";
export FOO2 = "456";
// ...

meta-function.ts

/* Common place to import all of them and register some meta behavior */
import { FOO1, FOO2 } from './generated.ts';

meta(FOO1, FOO2);

app.ts

/* App code */
import {FOO1} from './generated.ts';

doWork(FOO1);

We don't want FOO2 to be counted as used since it's not referenced by App code.