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Redundant local variable

Reports an unnecessary local variable that does not make a function more comprehensible:

  • a local variable that is immediately returned

  • a local variable that is immediately assigned to another variable and is not used anymore

  • a local variable that always has the same value as another local variable or parameter.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

UnnecessaryLocalVariableJS
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Data flow

Use the checkbox below to have this inspection ignore variables that are immediately returned or thrown. Some coding styles suggest using such variables for clarity and ease of debugging.

Inspection ID: UnnecessaryLocalVariableJS

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Redundant local variable inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore immediately returned or thrown variables

Option ID:

m_ignoreImmediatelyReturnedVariables

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection UnnecessaryLocalVariableJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025