Intelligent Code Cleaner
An intelligent, zero-configuration, language-aware extension to clean, compact, and minify your source code directly inside VS Code.
Whether you want to make your code more readable, strip heavy comments for a production push, or compress your files down to their absolute smallest footprint, this extension provides instant optimization with smart syntax safety guards.
Features
- Auto-Language Detection: If your file type is unrecognized, the extension uses a built-in scoring engine to analyze your code and instantly analyze its language architecture.
- 4 Presets (Readable to Nuclear): Choose exactly how deep you want your cleaning cycle to go.
- Syntax Safety Guards: Automatically detects indentation-sensitive languages (like Python and YAML) or newline-sensitive scripts (like SQL and Shell) to prevent you from running destructive operations that would break your code execution.
- Reduction Metrics: Instantly notifies you of how many characters were saved and the total file size percentage reduction after every clean.
Cleaning Levels (Presets)
| Level |
Description |
Comments |
Indentation |
Blank Lines |
Operators |
Collapsing |
| READABLE |
Normalises operator spaces; removes empty lines. |
Keep |
Keep |
Remove |
Normalise |
Keep |
| COMPACT |
Strips layout noise and notes; keeps structural spacing. |
Remove |
Keep |
Remove |
Normalise |
Keep |
| MINIFIED |
Flattens code structure entirely by stripping layout. |
Remove |
Remove |
Remove |
Normalise |
Keep |
| NUCLEAR |
Squashes your script into the smallest possible single-line block. |
Remove |
Remove |
Remove |
Strip Excess |
Compress to 1 Line |
Supported Languages
The engine includes specialized comment stripping and syntax formatting logic for a wide variety of development stacks:
- Web: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JSON
- Systems & Apps: C, C++, Rust, Go, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Dart, Scala
- Scripting & Data: Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, SQL, YAML, Shell Script (Bash/Zsh)
How to Use
- Open any source code file.
- Right-click anywhere inside the editor window.
- Click "Clean Code Engine..." at the bottom of the context menu.
- Select your preferred cleaning depth from the dropdown.
Method 2: Command Palette
- Open your code file.
- Open the Command Palette (
Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS).
- Type "Clean Code Engine..." and hit
Enter.
- Choose your configuration preset.
Syntax Safety Alerts
The extension protects your workflow. If you choose Minified or Nuclear mode on a language like Python or YAML (where indentation dictates block structures), a native modal warning will pop up:
YAML uses indentation as syntax — removing it will break your code!
You can choose to override it if you know what you are doing, or cancel safely without touching your file.
