console-log-remover

A CLI tool to automatically remove console.log statements from your JavaScript/TypeScript codebase before deployment.

Features

• Removes standalone console.log statements
• Supports JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and TSX files
• Preserves code formatting
• Skips console.logs that are part of expressions or assignments
• Ignores node_modules and .git directories
• Maintains source maps

Installation

npm

npm install -D console-log-remover

pnpm

pnpm add -D console-log-remover

yarn

yarn add -D console-log-remover

Usage

CLI

Run in your project directory:

remove-logs

Package Scripts

Add to your package.json scripts:

{
  "scripts": {
    "prebuild": "remove-logs",
    "build": "your-build-command"
  }
}

Monorepo Setup

PNPM Workspaces

In your package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "console-log-remover": "workspace:*"
  }
}

What gets removed?

✅ Will remove:

console.log("debug info");
console.log(variable);
console.log("error", error);

if (condition) {
    console.log("inside block");
}

❌ Won't remove (to preserve code functionality):

const result = console.log("returning something");
return console.log("value") || defaultValue;
condition && console.log("test");

Limitations

• Only removes standalone console.log statements
• Doesn't remove console.warn, console.error, etc.
• Won't remove logs that are part of larger expressions

License

ISC

Author

recursive