See My Folder Structure

A lightweight, powerful Visual Studio Code extension that generates a complete representation of your directory structure.

Perfect for:

• 📄 Documentation: Quickly adding project structure to your README.md.
• 🤖 AI Context: Generating a clean file structure to copy-paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI agents to explain your project architecture.
• 📦 Project Handover: Helping new team members understand the file hierarchy.

🚀 Features

• Dual Formats: Generate either a classic ASCII Text Tree or a structured JSON file.
• Auto-Save: Automatically saves the output as folder-structure.txt or folder-structure.json in your root directory.
• Large Project Support: Includes a real-time progress bar with percentage tracking (10%, 50%, etc.) for handling massive repositories.
• Smart Detection: Works on the currently open workspace, or prompts you to select a folder if no workspace is open.
• Clean Output: Automatically ignores its own output files to prevent recursion loops.
• Cancellable: Stop the scan at any time using the "Cancel" button in the progress notification.

📖 How to Use

1. Open the Command Palette:
   • Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + P
   • Mac: Cmd + Shift + P
2. Type and select: Generate Folder Structure
3. Choose your output format:
   • Text Tree: For visual ASCII art.
   • JSON: For programmatic use or data parsing.
4. The extension will scan your folder and save the file.
5. The generated file will open automatically in the editor.

📝 Example Output

Option 1: Text Tree (folder-structure.txt)

my-project
├── src
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── Header.tsx
│   │   └── Footer.tsx
│   ├── utils
│   │   └── api.ts
│   └── index.ts
├── package.json
└── README.md

Option 2: JSON (folder-structure.json)
JSON

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "type": "directory",
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "src",
      "type": "directory",
      "children": [
        {
          "name": "index.ts",
          "type": "file"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "package.json",
      "type": "file"
    }
  ]
}


⚙️ Requirements
Visual Studio Code version 1.80.0 or higher.

🔧 Extension Settings
This extension currently runs with zero configuration. It automatically detects your folder structure.

📅 Release Notes
0.0.1
Initial release.

Added ASCII and JSON format support.

Added progress bar with percentage tracking.

Added file saving capability.

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