Coders Backups 📸

Coders Backups is a lightweight, high-performance VS Code extension designed for developers who need instant, point-in-time recovery for their projects. Whether you are running experimental scripts or letting AI agents modify your codebase, Coders Backups ensures you can revert to a clean state in seconds.

🚀 Why Coders Backups?

In the age of AI coding assistants, your codebase can change rapidly. Coders Backups provides a "safety net" that allows you to capture the exact state of your project before any major operation.

• ⚡ Instant Snapshots: Create a compressed backup of your entire workspace with a single click.
• 🧠 Smart Filtering: Automatically excludes heavy directories like node_modules, .git, dist, and build to keep backups lean.
• 📂 Organized Storage: All snapshots are stored in a hidden .backups folder within your project, organized by timestamp.
• 🛠️ Zero Configuration: Works immediately upon installation.

🛠️ Getting Started

Installation

1. Open Extensions in VS Code (Ctrl+Shift+X).
2. Search for Coders Backups.
3. Click Install.

How to Use

Coders Backups is designed to stay out of your way until you need it.

1. Status Bar Icon: Click the 📸 Coders Backups icon in the bottom-left status bar.
2. Command Palette: Press Ctrl+Shift+P and type Coders Backups: Take Snapshot.
3. Recovery: Navigate to the .backups folder in your project root and extract any timestamped ZIP file to restore your state.

// Snapshots are named using the following format:
backup_YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM.zip

🛡️ Smart Exclusions

Coders Backups intelligently ignores the following patterns by default to ensure maximum speed and minimum storage usage:

• node_modules/
• .git/
• .backups/
• build/ & dist/
• env/ & venv/
• .next/

🤝 Contributing & Support

We welcome contributions! Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to submit pull requests and report issues.

• Submit a Bug: GitHub Issues
• Documentation: Wiki
• Maintainer: Coders

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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