FTA: Fast TypeScript Analyzer for Code Complexity and Maintainability Assessment
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Summary
FTA (Fast TypeScript Analyzer) is a high-performance static analysis tool for TypeScript and JavaScript code, written in Rust. It uses the swc parser to analyze code complexity and maintainability issues, providing developers with actionable insights to improve their code quality. The tool offers multiple usage options including a command-line interface and demonstrates its capabilities with example output from analyzing the Redux project.
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It captures static information about TypeScript code and generates easy-to-understand analytics that tell you about complexity and maintainability issues that you may want to address.
FTA uses swc to parse your code then runs various analytical routines against it to understand how complex and maintainable it is likely to be.
JavaScript code is also supported.
There are several ways to use fta. The simplest is to use fta-cli:
FTA (Fast TypeScript Analyzer) is a super-fast TypeScript static analysis tool written in Rust. It captures static information about TypeScript code and generates easy-to-understand analytics that tell you about complexity and maintainability issues that
