Why your monorepo audits are lying to you (and how to fix the rot)

We’ve all been there: running a dependency audit, seeing a tool report 100 "unused" files, and realizing with horror that half of those files are actually critical architectural hubs. Static analysis tools in the JavaScript ecosystem are historically built to be "safe"—they flag anything they cannot explicitly trace. But in a complex monorepo with circular dependencies, alias-heavy build tools like Vite, and custom workspace configurations, these tools often collapse. They stop auditing and star