importide

Importide is a cross-language tool and plugin framework designed to manage, analyze, and optimize import statements across multiple programming languages. It provides automatic import resolution, grouping, and sorting, along with unused import detection, deduplication, and cycle analysis. By constructing a module dependency graph, importide helps maintain consistent imports and can reduce build times in large codebases.

The core components include a language-agnostic parser, language-specific adapters, and a command-line interface plus editor integrations. It supports languages such as Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, Java, Go, and Rust, with adapters that implement each language’s import semantics. The system emphasizes deterministic import ordering and repeatable refactoring, enabling teams to enforce a common style across repositories.

Configuration is centralized through an importide.json or .importidec configuration file, where rules for grouping, maximum line length, and sorting criteria can be defined. Importide can run in analysis mode to report issues and in automatic-fix mode to apply changes, with editor plugins enabling on-save refactoring and real-time suggestions. It also provides hooks for custom resolvers to handle project-specific aliasing or monorepo layouts.

Usage typically involves installing the appropriate language-specific package or the standalone binary, then running commands such as importide analyze to generate a report and importide fix to apply changes. The tool integrates with continuous integration pipelines to enforce import quality in pull requests and to prevent regressions in code organization.

Importide is released under an open-source license and maintained by a community of contributors. It is designed to complement existing language servers and code-formatters, focusing specifically on the discipline of import management.