excerpta 1.0.8

A smart dead code detector for Dart and Flutter, with built-in support for MobX, GetIt, and clean architecture idioms.

✂️ excerpta

A smart, high-confidence dead code detector for Dart and Flutter projects, with native support for MobX, GetIt, and clean architecture patterns.

Finds unused and never-referenced declarations (classes, stores, view models, methods, and functions) without throwing false positives on code generation or dependency injection graphs.

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💡 About the name

"Excerpta" — derived from the Latin excerptum — means "selected passages" or "excerpts".

Fitting for a tool that isolates the essential parts of your codebase and highlights dead code waiting to be pruned.

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⚡ Why Excerpta?

Generic dead code detectors often struggle with Flutter apps using code generators or Service Locators. They frequently flag:

• MobX Stores as unused because they are written as abstract class _MyStoreBase and generated into _$MyStore.
• GetIt Dependencies as unused because they are injected dynamically via generic type arguments (e.g., GetIt.I.get<MyStore>()).

Excerpta understands these patterns natively. It traverses the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) using Dart's official analyzer engine to give you high-confidence results without false alarms.

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📦 Installation

There are two ways to get the excerpta CLI:

1. Global Activation (Recommended)

Available everywhere on your machine, independent of any specific project:

dart pub global activate excerpta