import-splitnsort

My first, very idiosyncratic VS Code extension that perhaps only I will ever use! There are many excellent import sorters available -- sort-imports for example -- but import-splitnsort is opinionated:

• imports that reference multiple exports can be organized but they can't really be sorted without splitting them up, one per line
• if you try to import multiple exports from the same module in one statement, sooner or later you violate the tslint:line-length rule; this often hits me with imports from @angular/core
• multi-export imports don't help you eyeball your imports and they disguise their 'weight' in your code

Before Split'n'Sort

After Split'n'Sort

Features

Automatically splits and sorts imports on save. You can disable this behavior in the settings and split'n'sort manually.

• Launch the command palette with Ctrl|Cmd+Shift+P
• Type Split and sort imports

Imports are sorted case-sensitive and broken into 6 categories, in this order:

import * as vscode from 'vscode';                        // namespace imports

import { ChangeDetectionStrategy } from '@angular/core'; // named class-like imports

import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';                    // named function-like imports

import $ from 'JQuery';                                  // default imports

import zip = require('./ZipCodeValidator');              // external imports

import 'code.js';                                        // string imports

Of course, it is very rare for any code to use all these different import types.

Extension Settings

// Automatically split and sort imports on save (default true)
"import-splitnsort.on-save": true

Release Notes

1.0.5

Change sort order so string imports come first

1.0.4

Extension activating for non-TypeScript files

1.0.1

After eating my own dog food for a while, it became clear that a case-insensitive sort is a Really Bad Idea! Lowercase exports are semantically different to uppercase exports: the former are typically functions and the latter classes. The two are now separated #1.

1.0.0

Initial release.

Credits

Developed by Mark Florence.

Thanks

Many thanks to sort-imports for showing the way!

Special thanks to typescript-parser for a really nice and easy-to-use TypeScript to AST parser.