🐛 Unused files server.js

[thoughtsunificator]

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.
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
└── server.js

Foo

package.json

{
  "name": "foo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "knip"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "knip": "5.41.1"
  }
}

[user@pc foo]$ npm test

> [email protected] test
> knip

Unused files (1)
server.js

[thoughtsunificator]

See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/configuring-npm/package-json#default-values

I'm guessing there's the same issue with index.js, although I have not tested (yet)

[webpro]

Interesting. But this is a default only to npm? Not sure how widely recognized this is.

You can add entry: ["server.js"] to your Knip config.

The default entry file patterns are here: https://knip.dev/explanations/entry-files#default-entry-file-patterns - so index.js is picked up automatically.

[thoughtsunificator]

I'd say pretty much any package manager that interfaces with package.json such as yarn, pnpm etc..