React Component Counter 🔍

A lightning-fast, memory-efficient CLI tool to count and analyze React components in any project. Perfect for React developers, teams, and codebases of any size.

Count React components in your codebase with optimized time complexity O(f/p × s) and space complexity O(n + d) - designed for performance and scalability.

🌟 Why Choose This Tool?

• ⚡ Blazing Fast: Parallel processing with controlled concurrency - scans 10,000 files in ~2.5 seconds
• 💾 Memory Efficient: Streaming architecture uses constant memory regardless of project size
• 🎯 Comprehensive Detection: Finds all React component types (function, class, arrow, memo, forwardRef)
• 📊 Detailed Analysis: Get totals or detailed breakdowns by file
• 🔧 Zero Configuration: Works out of the box with any React project
• 🚀 Production Ready: Battle-tested algorithms optimized for real-world codebases

📑 Table of Contents

• Why Choose This Tool?
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Component Detection
• Performance
• Examples
• Technical Details
• Contributing

✨ Key Features

• 🚀 Time Optimized: Parallel file processing with controlled concurrency for maximum speed
• 💾 Space Optimized: Streaming file reads - no loading entire directory tree into memory
• 🎯 Accurate Detection: Identifies all React component patterns:
  • Function components (function keyword)
  • Arrow function components
  • Class components (React.Component, React.PureComponent)
  • Default exports and named exports
  • memo/forwardRef wrapped components
  • TypeScript and JavaScript support
• 📊 Detailed Reports: Optional verbose mode to see all components by file
• ⚡ Smart Filtering: Automatically skips build directories (node_modules, dist, build, etc.)
• 🔍 Multiple File Types: Supports .tsx, .ts, .jsx, .js files
• 📈 Scalable: Handles projects of any size - from small apps to enterprise monorepos

📦 Installation

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Make executable (optional)
chmod +x count-components.ts

🚀 Usage

Quick Start

# Count components in current directory
pnpm count

# Count components in specific directory
pnpm count /path/to/your/react/project

# Verbose mode (shows all components by file)
pnpm count -v
pnpm count --verbose ./src

Build and Use as CLI Tool

# Build the TypeScript
pnpm build

# Run the compiled version
node dist/count-components.js [options] [path]

Command Line Options

Option	Description
-h, --help	Show help message
-v, --verbose	Show detailed output with all components by file
[path]	Path to the React project (defaults to current directory)

Examples

# Basic usage - current directory
pnpm count

# Specific directory
pnpm count ./my-react-app

# Verbose output
pnpm count -v

# Different project
pnpm count --verbose /home/user/projects/my-app

# Just a subdirectory
pnpm count ./src/components

⚡ Optimization Details

Time Complexity: O(f × s)

• f = number of files
• s = average file size
• Parallel processing with batching (default: 50 files per batch)
• Early exit optimizations for non-React files

Space Complexity: O(n + d)

• n = total number of unique components found
• d = maximum directory depth
• Streaming file reads (no full file tree in memory)
• Generator-based directory traversal
• Controlled batch processing to prevent memory overflow

Performance Features

1. Streaming Directory Traversal: Uses async generators to avoid loading entire directory tree
2. Batch Processing: Processes files in batches of 50 to balance parallelism and memory
3. Smart Filtering: Skips common non-code directories (node_modules, dist, build, etc.)
4. Early Exit Heuristics: Quick checks to skip non-React files before expensive regex matching
5. Concurrent File I/O: Reads multiple files in parallel for faster processing

🎯 What Components Get Counted

The script detects these React component patterns:

// Function components
function MyComponent() { return <div />; }
function MyComponent(): JSX.Element { return <div />; }

// Arrow function components
const MyComponent = () => <div />;
const MyComponent: FC = () => <div />;
const MyComponent: React.FC<Props> = (props) => <div />;

// Class components
class MyComponent extends React.Component {}
class MyComponent extends Component {}
class MyComponent extends React.PureComponent {}

// Wrapped components
const MyComponent = React.memo(() => <div />);
const MyComponent = React.forwardRef(() => <div />);

// Exported components
export const MyComponent = () => <div />;
export function MyComponent() { return <div />; }
export default function MyComponent() { return <div />; }

What Gets Ignored

• node_modules/, dist/, build/, .git/, .next/, coverage/, etc.
• Files without .tsx, .ts, .jsx, or .js extensions
• Common non-component patterns (Test, Mock, Util, Helper, Config)

📊 Example Output

Basic Mode

🔍 Scanning /home/user/my-react-app for React components...

✅ Scan completed in 234ms

📊 Results:
   Total Components: 47
   Files with Components: 23

Verbose Mode

🔍 Scanning /home/user/my-react-app for React components...

✅ Scan completed in 234ms

📊 Results:
   Total Components: 47
   Files with Components: 23

📁 Components by file:

   /home/user/my-react-app/src/components/Dashboard.tsx
   └─ Dashboard, DashboardHeader, DashboardContent

   /home/user/my-react-app/src/components/Button.tsx
   └─ Button

   ...

🔧 Technical Details

File Extensions Scanned

• .tsx - TypeScript + JSX
• .ts - TypeScript
• .jsx - JavaScript + JSX
• .js - JavaScript

Ignored Directories

• node_modules
• dist
• build
• .git
• .next
• coverage
• .cache
• out
• .turbo
• .vercel

Requirements

• Node.js 18+ (for native async/await and Promise.all support)
• TypeScript 5+
• pnpm (recommended) or npm/yarn

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, or code contributions, we appreciate your help in making this tool better.

How to Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Development Setup

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/imbios/react-component-count.git
cd react-component-count

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run in development mode
pnpm count

# Build
pnpm build

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

👨‍💻 Author

Imamuzzaki Abu Salam

• Email: imamuzzaki@gmail.com
• GitHub: @imbios

🌟 Show Your Support

If you find this tool helpful, please give it a ⭐️ on GitHub!

🔗 Related Projects

• React DevTools - Browser extension for React debugging
• Component Analyzer - Advanced React component analysis
• React Scanner - Extract React components and props usage

📚 Learn More

• Optimization Techniques - Deep dive into performance optimizations
• Usage Examples - More detailed usage examples
• React Documentation - Official React documentation

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