Remove useless empty import

[depsimon]

Is there a way to automatically remove useless empty imports?

Here's a playground.

Input:

import {} from 'useless-import'
import { util } from 'my-util'


export function myUtil() {
  return util()
}

Expected output:

import { util } from 'my-util'


export function myUtil() {
  return util()
}

[Conaclos]

You can use the linter rule noUnusedImports. The rule has a safe fix that remove unused imports.

[depsimon]

This rule is enabled and works for unused imports, but doesn't delete the empty imports {}.

[Conaclos]

How did you end with empty named imports?

We could extend noUnusedImports to support this case. Or this could be part of the import organizer. Not sure.

[depsimon]

I think it comes from the VS Code extension that breaks a lot of refactorings. To fix most of them we mainly Undo (Cmd+Z) after fixing with Biome until the result is valid.

[MYKEU]

For me I appear to only get an empty import if there are more than one unused named imports; ie:

import { Day, format } from 'date-fns'

// becomes

import {} from 'date-fns'

Whereas a single unused import correctly removes it entirely

[wottpal]

Did someone manage to remove {} imports?