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Dead Code in Flutter Is More Than an Analyzer Warning

by Lucas Menezes dev.to

4 min read

Finding an unused_element warning is easy. Deciding whether a file is safe to delete is not. Flutter applications have several legitimate ways to use code without an obvious direct reference: generated registries, route tables, dependency injection, conditional imports, flavors, platform channels, annotations, test-only helpers, and public package exports. A search that returns zero references is…

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