Quickly analyze your project's codebase with comprehensive metrics, Git analytics, and interactive dashboards.
Overview
CodeCount is a VS Code extension that provides deep insights into your codebase. Get instant metrics on lines of code, understand contributor activity, track commit trends, and visualize language distribution across your entire project or a specific branch.
Features
Code Metrics
Workspace Analysis — Total line counts for entire projects
File-by-File Breakdown — Statistics for individual files and by extension
Branch-Aware Language Distribution — On feature branches, only counts files changed on that branch
Comment Detection — Separate counts for comment and blank lines
Gitignore Support — Automatically respects .gitignore patterns
Git Analytics
Branch-Aware Statistics — All three analytics sections (Language Distribution, Contributors, Repository Analytics) automatically scope to the current branch on feature branches and show full history on main/master, each with a branch badge indicating which view is active
Commit Trends — Visualize commits, additions, and deletions over time with selectable granularity:
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly
By Days of the Week — aggregate by day of week within any date range
By Hour of Day — aggregate by hour within any date range
Date Range Filtering — All granularities support start/end date pickers
Repository Metrics — Total contributors, commits, lines added and deleted
Interactive Dashboard
Sidebar Tree View — Quick stats in the Activity Bar with expandable sections
Analytics Webview — Full dashboard with tabs for Languages, Contributors, and Repo Analytics
Chart.js Visualizations — Bar charts, line charts, and horizontal bar charts with hover tooltips
Dark Mode Support — Optimized for VS Code dark themes
Commands
Access via the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P):
Command
Description
CodeCount: Count Lines of Code
Analyze the current active file
CodeCount: Count Lines of Code in All Files
Analyze entire workspace
CodeCount: Count Lines of Code by Extension
Get breakdown by file type
CodeCount: Refresh CodeCount Stats
Refresh sidebar and dashboard
Requirements
VS Code: 1.115.0 or newer
Git: Required for repository analytics and contributor tracking
Usage
Sidebar
Click the CodeCount icon in the Activity Bar to open the sidebar. It shows:
Language distribution with line counts
Top contributors and their activity
Quick link to the full Analytics Dashboard
Analytics Dashboard
Open via the sidebar shortcut or the Open Analytics Dashboard command. Features:
Branch context awareness — Language, Contributor, and Repo Analytics sections all adapt to your current branch; each shows a branch badge (⎇ branch-name or ⎇ all branches)
Date range filtering — restrict all charts to a custom date window, including By Days of the Week and By Hour views
Granularity selector — switch between Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Yearly / By Days of the Week / By Hour
Contributor file history — click a file in the Contributors tab to diff any commit
