Line Counter Dashboard
Display file and project line counts with language-specific statistics. See your codebase size at a glance.
Features
- Status bar line count — current file's line count always visible
- Workspace scanning — count all lines across your entire project
- Language breakdown — see lines per language with percentage
- Code/Comment/Blank classification — understand your code composition
- Sidebar tree view — dedicated panel in the activity bar
- Configurable exclusions — skip node_modules, dist, build, etc.
Usage
Status Bar
The current file's line count appears in the bottom-right status bar. Click it to open the full workspace summary.
Open the "Line Counter" panel in the activity bar to see statistics organized by language.
Commands
- Line Counter: Show Line Count Summary — scan workspace and display full report
- Line Counter: Refresh Line Counts — refresh the sidebar statistics
Example Output
Workspace Summary: 45,230 total lines in 312 files
Code: 32,100 | Comment: 5,430 | Blank: 7,700
By Language:
TypeScript: 18,500 lines (95 files, 40.9%)
Python: 12,300 lines (78 files, 27.2%)
JavaScript: 5,200 lines (45 files, 11.5%)
JSON: 3,800 lines (42 files, 8.4%)
CSS: 2,100 lines (18 files, 4.6%)
Markdown: 1,830 lines (22 files, 4.0%)
Shell: 1,500 lines (12 files, 3.3%)
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
lineCounterDashboard.excludePatterns |
["**/node_modules/**", ...] |
Glob patterns to exclude |
lineCounterDashboard.includePatterns |
["**/*.{js,ts,...}"] |
Glob patterns to include |
lineCounterDashboard.showInStatusBar |
true |
Show line count in status bar |
Default Exclusions
node_modules, .git, dist, build, .next, coverage, __pycache__, vendor, *.min.js, *.min.css
Supported Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Lua, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Less, YAML, JSON, Markdown, Shell, Batch, PowerShell, Dart, R, Perl, Elixir, Haskell, Clojure
License
MIT
