microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Add a "Export unused declaration" codefix
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Description
🔍 Search Terms
fix unused
✅ Viability Checklist
- This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
- This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
- This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
- This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
- This isn't a request to add a new utility type: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/No-New-Utility-Types
- This feature would agree with the rest of our Design Goals: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Design-Goals
⭐ Suggestion
Add a "Export unused declaration" codefix.
📃 Motivating Example
Before:
function Foo () {
}
After (depends on module type):
export function Foo () {
}
💻 Use Cases
Sometime we may forget to export a declaration and hence the declaration is marked as unused.
To fix it, we have to back to export it manully, which is cumbersome.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start from the motivating TypeScript example and determine how existing unused-declaration diagnostics and codefixes are implemented. The issue names no files, tests, or entry points, so identify the relevant diagnostic and codefix areas first; done means offering an "Export unused declaration" action that handles the stated module-type distinction without changing runtime behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100