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🔍 Scan for JavaScript/TypeScript build artifacts 📦 (node_modules 📁, .next ⚙️, dist 📤, .cache 🗂️, coverage 📊, .turbo 🌪️, .parcel-cache 📦, and more) cluttering your filesystem. 💾 See how much space each one is wasting, then select and delete them to reclaim disk space. 🧹

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Dustoff – CLI to find and remove JavaScript/TS build artifacts

by max-roma·Mar 4, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

Cleans up JS build artifacts, but tree-shaking and bundlers already solve this.

Strengths
  • •Solves real friction: build cache bloat in monorepos and CI workflows.
  • •Single-purpose CLI with no dependencies; easy to integrate into existing pipelines.
Weaknesses
  • •Modern bundlers (esbuild, Turbopack, Webpack) already have tree-shaking and pruning built in.
  • •No evidence of novel approach; feels like a wrapper around existing filesystem + AST scanning.
Target Audience

JavaScript/TypeScript developers, monorepo maintainers

Similar To

Turbopack · esbuild · Webpack

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