🧹 Code Cleaner – Remove & Manage Comments and Emojis from Code

Clean your source code by automatically removing unwanted inline comments, multiline comments, and emojis in JavaScript, Python, HTML, and 15+ languages. Perfect for code reviews, minification, or preparing clean production code.

Code Cleaner is a powerful and versatile extension for Visual Studio Code designed to help you quickly clean your code of unwanted comments and emojis, improving the readability and maintainability of your source code.

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✨ Why choose Code Cleaner?

Fast and Efficient: Finds and removes comments and emojis in seconds
Precision: Advanced algorithms that avoid false positives
Multi-language: Supports over 15 programming languages
Intuitive Interface: Context menu and easy-to-use commands
Quick Navigation: Jump between found occurrences with a simple key

🌐 Supported Languages

✅ JavaScript - // and /* */
✅ TypeScript - // and /* */
✅ HTML - 
✅ CSS - /* */
✅ PHP - //, # and /* */
✅ C - // and /* */
✅ C++ - // and /* */
✅ C# - // and /* */
✅ Rust - // and /* */
✅ Go - // and /* */
✅ Java - // and /* */
✅ Kotlin - // and /* */
✅ Swift - // and /* */
✅ Python - #, """ and '''
✅ Ruby - # and =begin...=end
✅ SQL - -- and /* */

Note: For languages not explicitly supported, Code Cleaner uses generic patterns that work with most common syntaxes (//, #, /* */).

🚀 Features

Code Cleaner offers a series of powerful commands to identify and remove various types of "noise" from your code:

Search Commands

Find Inline Comments: Highlights all single-line comments (e.g., // comment)
Find Multiline Comments: Highlights all comment blocks (e.g., /* comment */)
Find Emojis: Highlights all emojis present in the code

Removal Commands

Remove Inline Comments: Removes all found single-line comments
Remove Multiline Comments: Removes all found comment blocks
Remove Emojis: Removes all found emojis

Navigate to Next Match: Move to the next highlighted occurrence
Clear Highlights: Removes all highlights created by the extension

📖 How to use

You can access Code Cleaner commands in two ways:

Context Menu: Right-click in the text editor, select Code Cleaner from the menu to view all available commands.
Command Palette: Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac) and type Code Cleaner: to filter and select the desired command.

📋 Available Commands

Command	Description	Command ID
Find Inline Comments	Finds all single-line comments.	`codecleaner.findInlineComments`
Find Multiline Comments	Finds all comment blocks.	`codecleaner.findMultilineComments`
Find Emojis	Finds all emojis in the code.	`codecleaner.findEmojis`
Remove Inline Comments	Removes all single-line comments.	`codecleaner.removeInlineComments`
Remove Multiline Comments	Removes all multiline comment blocks.	`codecleaner.removeMultilineComments`
Remove Emojis	Removes all emojis in the code.	`codecleaner.removeEmojis`
Navigate to Next Match	Moves to the next occurrence.	`codecleaner.navigateNext`
Clear Highlights	Clears all highlights.	`codecleaner.clearHighlights`

Keyboard Shortcuts

For an even faster workflow, you can use the following shortcuts:

Enter Go to the next found occurrence
Escape Clear all highlights

📦 Installation

Open Visual Studio Code
Go to the Extensions panel (Ctrl+Shift+X)
Click the 3 dots
Click on "Install from VSIX..."
Select the extension file

Or install directly from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

💡 Usage Examples

Scenario 1: Cleaning a JavaScript file

// TODO: Implement this function 😅
function calculateTotal(items) {
    /* 
     * This function calculates the total
     * of items in the cart 🛒
     */
    return items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.price, 0); // Sum the prices
}

After using Code Cleaner:

function calculateTotal(items) {
    return items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.price, 0);
}

Scenario 2: Removing emojis from Python code

def greet_user(name): # Greeting function 👋
    """Greets the user with a personalized message 🎉"""
    return f"Hello {name}! 😊"  # Welcome message