Update

3 posts with the tag “Update”

The State of Knip

Feb 28, 2025 - 5 min read - 900 words

Honestly, Knip was a bit of a “cursed” project from the get-go. Getting anywhere near a level of being broadly-ish valuable requires a good amount of ~~foolishness~~ determination, and it has always been clear it would stay far from perfect. It’s telling that most of similar projects have been abandoned.

And even though Knip is in its infancy, this update is meant as a sign we feel we’re still on to something. External indicators include increased usage looking at numbers such as dependent repositories on GitHub and weekly downloads on npm, and bug reports about increasingly less rudimentary issues.

Two Years

Oct 4, 2024 - 5 min read - 700 words

Lars Kappert

Knip it before you ship it

Exactly two years ago the first commit was pushed to GitHub and the first version of Knip was published to the npm registry. The name was initially Exportman! We’ve come a loooong way… The JavaScript ecosystem is highly dynamic and I’ve been crazy enough to even start, try and keep up with it! But here we are.

Slim down to speed up

Dec 14, 2023 - 7 min read - 1500 words

Lars Kappert

Knip it before you ship it

tl;dr; Memory usage is up to 50% lower, runs are up to 60% faster and you can start using v4 canary today. No “unused class members” for the time being, but this feature is planned to be restored.