Display file and project line counts with language-specific statistics. See your codebase size at a glance.

Features

Status bar line count — current file's line count always visible
Workspace scanning — count all lines across your entire project
Language breakdown — see lines per language with percentage
Code/Comment/Blank classification — understand your code composition
Sidebar tree view — dedicated panel in the activity bar
Configurable exclusions — skip node_modules, dist, build, etc.

Usage

Status Bar

The current file's line count appears in the bottom-right status bar. Click it to open the full workspace summary.

Open the "Line Counter" panel in the activity bar to see statistics organized by language.

Commands

Line Counter: Show Line Count Summary — scan workspace and display full report
Line Counter: Refresh Line Counts — refresh the sidebar statistics

Example Output

Workspace Summary: 45,230 total lines in 312 files
  Code: 32,100 | Comment: 5,430 | Blank: 7,700

By Language:
  TypeScript: 18,500 lines (95 files, 40.9%)
  Python: 12,300 lines (78 files, 27.2%)
  JavaScript: 5,200 lines (45 files, 11.5%)
  JSON: 3,800 lines (42 files, 8.4%)
  CSS: 2,100 lines (18 files, 4.6%)
  Markdown: 1,830 lines (22 files, 4.0%)
  Shell: 1,500 lines (12 files, 3.3%)

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`lineCounterDashboard.excludePatterns`	`["/node_modules/", ...]`	Glob patterns to exclude
`lineCounterDashboard.includePatterns`	`["*/.{js,ts,...}"]`	Glob patterns to include
`lineCounterDashboard.showInStatusBar`	`true`	Show line count in status bar

Default Exclusions

node_modules, .git, dist, build, .next, coverage, __pycache__, vendor, *.min.js, *.min.css

Supported Languages

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Lua, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Less, YAML, JSON, Markdown, Shell, Batch, PowerShell, Dart, R, Perl, Elixir, Haskell, Clojure

License

MIT

Line Counter Dashboard - Code Statistics