barrelify

Auto-generate TS barrel files.

Contents

• Introduction
• Install
• Example
• Usage
• API
  • barrelify

Introduction

Auto-generate barrel files for typescript.

Scans your directories for index.ts files with the // AUTO-BARREL comment at the start. Then re-writes the files as a barrel of all other javascript files in the directory.

Respects CommonJS/ESM compatibilities. Always ignores .gitignore-d and node_modules files.

Barrel files should be checked into version control.

Install

npm i barrelify --save-dev

Example

Given file structure

/
├─┬ cjs
│ ├── package.json // { "type": "commonjs" }
│ ├── cts.cts
│ ├── ts.ts
│ ├── esm.mts
│ └── index.ts // AUTO-BARREL
├─┬ esm
│ ├── package.json // { "type": "module" }
│ ├── cts.cts
│ ├── ts.ts
│ ├── esm.mts
│ └── index.ts // AUTO-BARREL
└─┬ ignore
  ├── foo.ts
  └── index.ts // _not_ AUTO-BARREL

npx barrelify will rewrite:

/cjs/index.ts:

// AUTO-BARREL

export * from './cts.cjs';
export * from './ts.js';

/esm/index.ts:

// AUTO-BARREL

export * from './cts.cjs';
export * from './ts.js';
export * from './esm.mjs';

Note that the // AUTO-BARREL comment is preserved, so future npx barrelify will continue to keep files in sync.

Usage

barrelify is an ESM module. That means it must be imported. To load from a CJS module, use dynamic import const { barrelify } = await import('barrelify');.

It is also available as a CLI.

npx barrel --help to get started.

It is generally recommended to only include barrelify as a dev/test dependency.

Make sure your index files are flagged with // AUTO-BARREL as the very first characters in the file. It will not generate index files by itself.

npx barrel --ci will execute a special "dry-run" version, that throws an error if any files are found out of sync. This can ensure barrel files are properly generated before checking into version control, or during CI tests.

API

barrelify(options?)

Programmatic way to access barrelify. Performs same actions as CLI.

options

cwd

string (default = process.cwd())

Directory to start search for index files. Defaults/resolves from process.cwd().

Recursively checks directories starting from this point.

dryRun

boolean (default = false)

If true, will not actually perform file writes.

ignore

string[] (default = [])

Globs for index files that should be explicitly ignored.