Welcome to Imports Duplicator!

A blazingly fast tool that allows you to copy imported files to another directory.

Get started

1. Clone this repository.
2. Set up golang (v1.18)
3. Run go test
4. Run go run . <source_path> <output_file_name>

If all that worked, you should have now a directory /out with all the files that are being referenced in <source_path> and a file <output_file_name>.ts with all the info in <source_path> but with the imports updated.

That's it!, now it's time to rock!

How to use

Very easy, just run:

go build .

Now you should have a binary file imports-duplicator in the root directory.

Usage

This will execute the binary file, you can use your favorite terminal

imports-duplicator <source_path> <output_file_name>

Example

Your folder structure looks like this:

• components/...
• types.ts

The file types.ts that looks like this:

import type { User } from '../dir_outside_root/user'
import type { Address } from '../dir_outside_root/address'

export type { User, Address }

And your code works just fine in dev, but in the build step for some reason you don't have access to ../dir_outside_root. So to have dir_outside_root/user.ts and dir_outside_root/address.ts avaliable in the build step you would do it like this:

go build .
imports-duplicator types.ts import-from-here
    
# Your build step
npm run build

In the build, import-from-here.ts would look like this:

 import type { User } from './out/user'
 import type { Address } from './out/address'
 
 export type { User, Address }

And your folder structure would look like this:

• components/...
• types.ts
• import-from-here.ts
• out/user.ts
• out/address.ts

Known limitations

• This tool only copies the files that are referenced in the file that you provide, if those files have imports from another files, it won't copy them.
• It only works .ts files.

Why would I use this?

This helped my team to solve a * really * specific case (just temporarily), but it's not intended to have a real use, maybe in the future.

Extra

I built this project as a part of my learning journey of golang, so you may find this code a bit awful, but I'm open and would love any suggestions!