Smart Path Refactor 🚀

A lightweight VS Code extension that keeps project references updated when you rename or move files and folders.

Developed by Leonardo Aleixo • GitHub

✨ Overview

Smart Path Refactor automatically updates references in text-based files such as HTML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, and other project assets whenever a file or folder is renamed or moved in the Explorer.

This helps keep links, images, stylesheet references, and static dependencies valid without manual edits.

🎥 How It Works

📹 Demo Videos

Main demonstration

Additional walkthrough

✨ Features

• Universal refactoring: Updates textual references in files not natively handled by VS Code such as HTML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, and more.
• Batch processing: Scans and updates all affected files efficiently in a single operation.
• False positive protection: Uses validation rules and boundary-aware patterns to avoid editing unrelated text, variables, or comments.
• Folder exclusion support: Ignores heavy directories such as node_modules, .git, and vendor to preserve editor performance.
• Explorer integration: Works directly when renaming or moving items from the VS Code sidebar.

🚀 Usage

1. Open your project in VS Code.
2. Rename or move a file or folder from the Explorer.
3. The extension automatically updates the affected references across the project.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• VS Code Extension API
• Regular Expressions (Regex) for safe path matching

📦 Marketplace Metadata

• Title: Smart Path Refactor
• Author: Leonardo Aleixo
• Publisher: leonardoaleixo
• License: MIT
• Repository: GitHub Repository
• Issues: Report a bug

Developed with 💻 by Leonardo Aleixo.