Export Code

A CLI tool to consolidate your entire project's source code into a single, well-formatted text file. Ideal for providing context to Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, or for creating a simple project archive.

🤔 Why?

When working with AI models, you often need to provide the full context of your codebase. Copy-pasting dozens of files is tedious and loses the file structure. This tool automates that process, creating a single file that is easy to copy and paste into an AI prompt.

✨ Features

• Exports all text-based files from your repository.
• Ignores files and directories listed in your .gitignore by default.
• Clearly separates each file's content with its path.
• Simple, zero-dependency execution.

📦 Installation

You can install the package globally:

npm install -g @zweer/export-code

Or use it directly with npx for on-the-fly execution:

npx @zweer/export-code --help

🚀 Usage

Navigate to the root directory of your project and run the command, specifying the output file:

npx export-code project-context.md

If you don't specify an output file, it will default to docs/EXPORT.md.

Output Format

The generated file will have a structure like this, making it easy for both humans and AI to read:

# EXPORT

## File structure

```
export-code
 ├── .editorconfig
 ├── .env
 ├─> .husky
 │   └── pre-commit
 ├─> .vscode
 │   └── settings.json
 └── README.md
```

## File export

`src/index.js`:

```javascript
console.log("Hello, World!");
```

---

`src/utils.js`:
```javascript
export const a = () => {
  return 'a';
};
```

---

`package.json`:
```json
{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "1.0.0"
}
```

🛠️ Options & Configuration

Command-Line Arguments

| Argument | Description | Default | Required | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | [outputFile] | The path where the final text file will be saved. | docs/EXPORT.md| No | | --ignore-list <paths> | A comma-separated list of glob patterns to ignore. For example: src/generated/**,*.test.ts | '' | No |

Ignoring Files

By default, export-code respects the rules found in your project's .gitignore file. It will automatically skip node_modules, build artifacts, and other ignored files.

You can also provide additional ignore patterns using the --ignore-list command-line argument. This argument accepts a comma-separated string of glob patterns. For example, to ignore all files in src/generated and all files ending with .test.ts, you would use:

npx export-code --ignore-list "src/generated/**,*.test.ts"

📄 License

Licensed under the MIT License.