@hubspot/ts-export-types

@hubspot/ts-export-types

Analyze exports for TypeScript packages
Produces a simplified type representation of all exported types, functions, classes, and other API surface elements.

Overview • Installation • Quick Start • Configuration • Output Format • API Reference

Overview

Features

• 🔍 TypeScript Compiler API — Uses the official TypeScript compiler for accurate type analysis
• 📦 Package-aware — Respects package.json exports field to identify public API boundaries
• 🧬 Complete type resolution — Handles generics, unions, intersections, mapped types, conditional types, and more
• 🔄 Deduplication — Automatically deduplicates shared and recursive types
• 🌐 External type tracking — Identifies types from external packages vs. internal types
• 📝 JSDoc preservation — Captures documentation comments from your source code
• 🛠️ CLI and programmatic API — Use from the command line or integrate into your tooling

Use cases

• 📚 API Documentation — Generate machine-readable API documentation for your TypeScript packages
• 🔄 Breaking Change Detection — Compare API snapshots to detect breaking changes between versions
• 🏗️ Code Generation — Use the type information to generate clients, validators, or other code
• 🧰 IDE Tooling — Build custom IDE integrations that understand your package's API
• 📊 API Analytics — Track how your API surface changes over time

Installation

npm install @hubspot/ts-export-types

Quick start

CLI usage

# Generate API types with auto-discovered config
npx ts-export-types analyze

# Generate with a specific config file
npx ts-export-types analyze --config ./ts-export-types.config.ts

Configuration file

Create a ts-export-types.config.ts file in your project root:

import type { TsExportTypesConfig } from '@hubspot/ts-export-types';

export default {
  analyze: {
    packageDirectory: '.',
    outputFile: './api/api.json',
    outputFormat: 'json',
    exportFilter: (exportInfo) => !exportInfo.exportName.startsWith('_'),
  },
} satisfies TsExportTypesConfig;

Programmatic usage

import { analyzePackage, loadConfig } from '@hubspot/ts-export-types';

const config = loadConfig({
  configDirectory: '/path/to/my-package',
  userConfig: {
    analyze: {
      outputFile: null, // Don't write to file
    },
  },
});

const result = analyzePackage(config);

console.log(result.exports); // Map of export paths to ExportNode[]
console.log(result.types); // Map of type IDs to their resolved ApiNode

Configuration

Configuration options

Option	Type	Default	Description
packageDirectory	string	Current directory	Root directory of the package to analyze
outputFile	string | null	./api/api.json	Output file path (null to disable writing)
outputFormat	'json' | 'ts-module'	'ts-module'	Output format
outputExportName	string	'typesReader'	Name for the exported reader (only for ts-module format)
exports	PackageExports	From package.json	Explicit exports map (overrides package.json)
exportFilter	(exportInfo: ExportInfo) => boolean	Include all	Function to filter which exports to include
inlineTypes	boolean	false	Inline non-recursive type references

Export filtering

The exportFilter option allows you to selectively include exports:

export default {
  analyze: {
    exportFilter: (exportInfo) => {
      // Exclude private exports (starting with _)
      if (exportInfo.exportName.startsWith('_')) return false;

      // Exclude internal paths
      if (exportInfo.filePath.includes('/internal/')) return false;

      return true;
    },
  },
} satisfies TsExportTypesConfig;

The ExportInfo object contains:

interface ExportInfo {
  filePath: string; // Full path to the source file
  exportName: string; // Name of the export
  isType?: boolean; // True if type-only export
  isDefault?: boolean; // True if default export
}

Output formats

JSON format (outputFormat: 'json'):

{
  "exports": { ... },
  "types": { ... }
}

TypeScript module format (outputFormat: 'ts-module'):

import { createAnalyzeResultReader } from '@hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result';

export * from "@hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result";

export const typesReader = createAnalyzeResultReader({ ... });

The TypeScript module format is useful for programmatically working with the generated types and provides helper functions for looking up exports and types. Use the outputExportName option to customize the export name (defaults to typesReader).

Output format

The analyzer produces a JSON structure with two main sections:

• exports: A map of export paths to arrays of ExportNode objects
• types: A map of canonical type IDs to their resolved ApiNode definitions

Example: Function export

Input:

export const sayHello = (name: string): string => `Hello, ${name}!`;

Output:

{
  "exports": {
    ".": [
      {
        "kind": "export",
        "exportName": "sayHello",
        "declarationKind": "const",
        "type": {
          "kind": "function",
          "functionKind": "arrow",
          "parameters": [
            {
              "kind": "parameter",
              "name": "name",
              "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "string" }
            }
          ],
          "returnType": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "string" }
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "types": {}
}

Example: Interface export

Input:

export interface UserProfile {
  id: number;
  name: string;
  email?: string;
}

Output:

{
  "exports": {
    ".": [
      {
        "kind": "export",
        "exportName": "UserProfile",
        "declarationKind": "interface",
        "isType": true,
        "type": {
          "kind": "type-reference",
          "typeId": "UserProfile:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
          "typeString": "UserProfile"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "types": {
    "UserProfile:my-package:dist/index.d.ts": {
      "kind": "object",
      "properties": [
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "id",
          "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "number" }
        },
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "name",
          "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "string" }
        },
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "email",
          "isOptional": true,
          "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "string" }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example: Class with inheritance

Input:

interface Runnable {
  run(): void;
}

class BaseClass {
  public baseProp: string = '';
  public baseMethod(): void {}
}

export class DerivedClass extends BaseClass implements Runnable {
  derivedProp: number = 0;
  run(): void {}
}

Output: (properties and methods from inherited classes are collapsed)

{
  "exports": {
    ".": [
      {
        "kind": "export",
        "exportName": "DerivedClass",
        "declarationKind": "class",
        "isType": true,
        "type": {
          "kind": "class",
          "name": "DerivedClass",
          "isAbstract": false,
          "constructors": [
            {
              "kind": "constructor",
              "parameters": [],
              "accessModifier": "public"
            }
          ],
          "properties": [
            {
              "kind": "property",
              "name": "derivedProp",
              "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "number" }
            },
            {
              "kind": "property",
              "name": "baseProp",
              "type": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "string" }
            }
          ],
          "methods": [
            {
              "kind": "method",
              "name": "run",
              "parameters": [],
              "returnType": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "void" },
              "isStatic": false,
              "isAbstract": false,
              "accessModifier": "public"
            },
            {
              "kind": "method",
              "name": "baseMethod",
              "parameters": [],
              "returnType": { "kind": "primitive", "name": "void" },
              "isStatic": false,
              "isAbstract": false,
              "accessModifier": "public"
            }
          ],
          "staticProperties": [],
          "staticMethods": [],
          "implements": [
            {
              "kind": "type-reference",
              "typeId": "Runnable:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
              "typeString": "Runnable"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Example: Generic types with shared references

Input:

export type Box<T> = { value: T };
export type StringBox = Box<string>;
export type Usage = { stringBox: Box<string> };

Output: (showing type deduplication via typeId references)

{
  "exports": {
    ".": [
      {
        "kind": "export",
        "exportName": "Box",
        "declarationKind": "type",
        "isType": true,
        "type": {
          "kind": "type-reference",
          "typeId": "Box:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
          "typeString": "Box<T>",
          "typeArguments": [{ "kind": "type-parameter", "name": "T" }]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "types": {
    "Box:my-package:dist/index.d.ts": {
      "kind": "object",
      "properties": [
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "value",
          "type": { "kind": "type-parameter", "name": "T" }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example: Recursive types

Input:

type SimpleOption = { type: 'simple'; value: string };
type OptionsGroup = { type: 'group'; options: Options[] };
type Options = SimpleOption | OptionsGroup;

export interface ComponentProps {
  options: Options;
}

Output: (recursive types handled via type references)

{
  "types": {
    "Options:my-package:dist/index.d.ts": {
      "kind": "union",
      "types": [
        {
          "kind": "type-reference",
          "typeId": "SimpleOption:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
          "typeString": "SimpleOption"
        },
        {
          "kind": "type-reference",
          "typeId": "OptionsGroup:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
          "typeString": "OptionsGroup"
        }
      ]
    },
    "OptionsGroup:my-package:dist/index.d.ts": {
      "kind": "object",
      "properties": [
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "type",
          "type": { "kind": "literal", "value": "group" }
        },
        {
          "kind": "property",
          "name": "options",
          "type": {
            "kind": "array",
            "elementType": {
              "kind": "type-reference",
              "typeId": "Options:my-package:dist/index.d.ts",
              "typeString": "Options"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Supported type constructs

Type	Support
Primitives (string, number, boolean, etc.)	✅
Literal types	✅
Union types	✅
Intersection types	✅
Object types / Interfaces	✅
Function types	✅
Array types	✅
Tuple types	✅
Generic types	✅
Type parameters	✅
Mapped types	✅
Conditional types	✅
Type guards	✅
Built-in types (Record, Map, Set, etc.)	✅
External type references	✅
Recursive types	✅
Classes (with inheritance)	✅
Abstract classes	✅
Enums	✅

API reference

Exported functions

analyzePackage(config: LoadedTsExportTypesConfig): AnalyzePackageResult

Main analysis function. Takes a loaded configuration and returns the analysis result.

loadConfig(options: LoadConfigOptions): LoadedTsExportTypesConfig

Loads and resolves configuration from options.

loadConfigFromFile(configPath: string): Promise<LoadedTsExportTypesConfig>

Loads configuration from a file path.

loadConfigFromDirectory(directory: string): Promise<LoadedTsExportTypesConfig>

Auto-discovers and loads configuration from a directory.

Analyze result helpers

Import from @hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result:

import { createAnalyzeResultReader } from '@hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result';

const result = createAnalyzeResultReader(analyzeResult);

// Find an export by name
const exportNode = result.findExportByName({
  exportPath: '.',
  exportName: 'MyFunction',
});

// Find a referenced type by ID
const typeNode = result.findReferencedTypeById(
  'MyType:my-package:dist/index.d.ts'
);

Type guards

Import from @hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result:

import {
  isArrayNode,
  isClassNode,
  isFunctionNode,
  isObjectNode,
  isPrimitiveNode,
  isTypeReferenceNode,
  isUnionNode,
  // ... and more
} from '@hubspot/ts-export-types/analyze-result';

if (isUnionNode(node)) {
  node.types.forEach(processType);
}

ApiNode types

All node types are exported from the main entry point:

import type {
  ApiNode,
  ApiNodeKind,
  ArrayNode,
  ClassNode,
  ExportNode,
  FunctionNode,
  ObjectNode,
  PropertyNode,
  TypeReferenceNode,
  UnionNode,
  // ... and more
} from '@hubspot/ts-export-types';

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• TypeScript >= 5.0.0

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on development setup and how to submit pull requests.

License

MIT © HubSpot

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