Recursively fetches all code files in the current directory, ignoring what's in .gitignore and .boltfetchignore,
then outputs them into a single Markdown file with line numbers.
npx codefetch -o my-complete-source.md
If -o (or --output) is not provided, it will print to stdout.
You can run directly with npx:
npx codefetch
Or install globally:
npm install -g codefetch
codefetch -o output.md
codefetch supports two ways to ignore files:
.gitignore - Respects your project's existing .gitignore patterns.codefetchignore - Additional patterns specific to codefetchThe .codefetchignore file works exactly like .gitignore and is useful when you want to ignore files that aren't in your .gitignore. For example:
# .codefetchignore
*.test.js
docs/
temp/
*.md
Both files support standard gitignore patterns including:
MIT
FAQs
Fetches all files in the current directory and outputs them in a Markdown file.
The npm package codefetch receives a total of 597 weekly downloads. As such, codefetch popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that codefetch demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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