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VSCode has an editor feature, which allows to clean and order imports in javascript and typescript files on saving ( "source.organizeImports": true ).

Question

How can I call this action on a file from the command line ?

something like :

tslint --fix [apply ordered-imports rule] file1 file2

but it seems tslint has its own implementation for "ordered-imports"

What I gathered so far

From what I understood, this feature triggers a call to the organizeImports function in typescript's codebase.

This functionnality is part of typescript's Language Service, but I don't know how to start a language service daemon, and how to interact with it.

Since the code is written in that function, there also probably is a way to call it synchronously from a ts script, but I couldn't find an example of how to setup the objects and variables from scratch to feed them to this function.

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  • I'm kind of new to VSCode, so I need to ask: What you want to do is to call the organize imports feature from the Command Palette on certain file? or are you talking about how to do it programatically?
    – lealceldeiro
    Commented Jun 6, 2019 at 7:52
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    I mean : being able to format a file applying the same processing from a shell script (e.g : from a git hook - see stackoverflow.com/questions/56449677 )
    – LeGEC
    Commented Jun 6, 2019 at 7:54

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The organize-imports-cli package does what you want: https://www.npmjs.com/package/organize-imports-cli

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You can try to use Husky for this.

We've setup pre-commit hooks for this like so

  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "tslint -p tsconfig.json"
    }
  }

You can use set such rules on all git hooks

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    I was looking specifically for typescript's built-in organizeImports action : is there a way to call this from the command line ? You can reach it through vscode "organize imports" action.
    – LeGEC
    Commented Jun 16, 2019 at 21:24

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