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Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go

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Capabilities • Installation • Exploratory Toolkit • CLI Reference

Dependency analysis and optimization toolkit for modern JavaScript and TypeScript codebases.

Enforce dependency graph hygiene and remove unused code with a very fast CLI.

About 📣

As codebases scale, maintaining a mental map of dependencies becomes impossible. Rev-dep is a high-speed static analysis tool designed to enforce architecture integrity and dependency hygiene across large-scale JS/TS projects.

Think of Rev-dep as a high-speed linter for your dependency graph.

Consolidate fragmented, sequential checks from multiple slow tools into a single, high-performance engine. Rev-dep executes a full suite of governance checks—including circularity, orphans, module boundaries and more, in one parallelized pass. Implemented in Go to bypass the performance bottlenecks of Node-based analysis, it can audit a 500k+ LoC project in approximately 500ms.

Automated Codebase Governance

Rev-dep moves beyond passive scanning to active enforcement, answering (and failing CI for) the hard questions:

Architecture Integrity: "Is my 'Domain A' illegally importing from 'Domain B'?".

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