dart_scout

Your friendly Dart/Flutter project health scout. It walks your codebase and tells you what’s stale, messy, or risky—either as a colorful terminal report or as JSON you can feed into CI.

What it checks

• Dependencies: outdated or deprecated packages via pub.dev
• Imports: unused imports by scanning your Dart files
• Format: verifies dart format, optional --fix to auto-format
• Stats: files, total/blank/comment lines
• Security (lightweight): flags versions from a small vulnerable list
• JSON mode: everything above in machine-readable form

Quick start

dart pub global activate --source path .   # from the repo root
dart_scout analyze                         # terminal report
dart_scout analyze --json > report.json    # JSON saved to file

No config needed. It skips common build/cache dirs: .dart_tool, build, .pub-cache, .git, node_modules.

Commands

• analyze (default): run the full suite
• deps: dependency freshness/deprecation only
• imports: unused imports only
• stats: code stats only
• security: vulnerable versions only

Common flags

• --path, -p — project path (default: .)
• --json — emit JSON instead of terminal output
• --fix — run dart format automatically
• --no-color — disable ANSI colors
• --verbose, -v — more detail

Why you’d use it

You get a fast, no-setup health snapshot for any Dart/Flutter repo. Great for PR gates, quick audits, or local hygiene checks before you push.