Zipper

A lightweight VS Code extension that adds simple ZIP compression, extraction, and preview capabilities directly to the Explorer context menu.

Designed for quick, local archive operations without leaving the editor.

Features

1. Zip Files and Folders

• Right-click one or more files / folders in the Explorer
• Select Compress
• Creates a .zip archive in the same directory

Behavior

• Single selection: example.txt → example.zip
• Multiple selections: → archive.zip

2. Unzip Archives

• Right-click a .zip file in the Explorer
• Select Extract
• Extracts contents into a folder with the same name

Behavior example.zip → example/

3. ZIP Preview

Zipper provides a read-only archive preview inside VS Code, allowing you to browse archive contents without extracting.

4. Download a Single File or Folder

From the ZIP preview, you can select one file or one folder and extract it locally.

"Download" refers to extracting the selected item to disk.

5. Download Multiple Files and Folders

You can select multiple files and folders in the preview and extract them together.

5. Editing archive

You can delete selected files and folders, rename files and folders, create new folders, and upload external files or folders in the editing view before exporting a new archive.

• Uploaded files are added at the selected location.
• Uploaded folders are imported recursively, preserving their internal structure.
• Empty folders are preserved.
• Existing entries with the same path are not overwritten.

This feature is still under development and is not guaranteed to be stable or fully functional.

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Capabilities

• Open .zip, .vsix, .jar, .apk directly in the editor
• Tree-based folder structure view
• Expand / collapse directories
• No automatic extraction
• Supports selective extraction (single or multiple items)
• Tested on:
  • Windows 11
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • macOS

Selective Extraction

• Extract individual files or folders from the preview
• Extract multiple files and folders at once
• Extracted items are placed into a local exports/ directory next to the archive
• Name conflicts are resolved automatically:
  • file.txt
  • file (1).txt
  • file (2).txt

Safety

• Protection against Zip Slip path traversal attacks
• All extracted files are guaranteed to stay within the target directory

Usage

1. Open the Explorer in VS Code
2. Select files or folders
3. Right-click and choose:
   • Compress - create a ZIP archive
   • Extract - extract a ZIP file
4. Open a supported archive file to preview its contents

Progress and results are shown via VS Code notifications.

Current Limitations

• Only ZIP format is supported
• No password-protected archives

License

MIT License © 2025 lyuwenhan