ts-morph

TypeScript Compiler API wrapper. Provides an easier way to programmatically navigate and manipulate TypeScript and JavaScript code.

Formerly ts-simple-ast.

Overview

• Documentation
• Declaration file

Main Features

• Wraps the compiler API objects to provide helper methods for getting information and programmatically changing files.
• Allows falling back to the compiler API objects if necessary (ex. classDeclaration.compilerNode or typeChecker.compilerObject).
• All changes are kept in memory (including file and directory moves) until specifying to save to the underlying file system.
• Changes are made to the text and wrapped nodes can be held on to between manipulations.

Getting Started

• Installing
• Instantiating
• Adding source files
• Getting source files
• Navigating
• Manipulating

Library Progress

This library is still under active development. Most common code manipulation/generation use cases are implemented, but there's still a lot of work to do. Please open an issue if you find a feature missing, bug, or question that isn't in the issue tracker.

• Breaking changes
• Change log
• Wrapped nodes progress report

Example

import { Project, StructureKind } from "ts-morph";

// initialize
const project = new Project({
    // Optionally specify compiler options, tsconfig.json, in-memory file system, and more here.
    // If you initialize with a tsconfig.json, then it will automatically populate the project
    // with the associated source files.
    // Read more: https://ts-morph.com/setup/
});

// add source files
project.addSourceFilesAtPaths("src/**/*.ts");
const myClassFile = project.createSourceFile("src/MyClass.ts", "export class MyClass {}");
const myEnumFile = project.createSourceFile("src/MyEnum.ts", {
    statements: [{
        kind: StructureKind.Enum,
        name: "MyEnum",
        isExported: true,
        members: [{ name: "member" }],
    }],
});

// get information
const myClass = myClassFile.getClassOrThrow("MyClass");
myClass.getName();          // returns: "MyClass"
myClass.hasExportKeyword(); // returns: true
myClass.isDefaultExport();  // returns: false

// manipulate
const myInterface = myClassFile.addInterface({
    name: "IMyInterface",
    isExported: true,
    properties: [{
        name: "myProp",
        type: "number",
    }],
});

myClass.rename("NewName");
myClass.addImplements(myInterface.getName());
myClass.addProperty({
    name: "myProp",
    initializer: "5",
});

project.getSourceFileOrThrow("src/ExistingFile.ts").delete();

// asynchronously save all the changes above
await project.save();

// get underlying compiler node from the typescript AST from any node
const compilerNode = myClassFile.compilerNode;

Or navigate existing compiler nodes created with the TypeScript compiler (the ts named export is the TypeScript compiler):

import { createWrappedNode, ClassDeclaration, ts } from "ts-morph";

// some code that creates a class declaration using the ts object
const classNode: ts.ClassDeclaration = ...;

// create and use a wrapped node
const classDec = createWrappedNode(classNode) as ClassDeclaration;
const firstProperty = classDec.getProperties()[0];

// ... do more stuff here ...

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