findTsFiles.ts

type FileInfo {
  content: string
  path: string
  filename: string
}

function findTsFiles(directory: string, exclude_dirs: string[]): void {
 const fileList: FileInfo[] = []

 function traverseDirectory(currentDir: string) {
  const files = fs.readdirSync(currentDir)

  files.forEach((file) => {
   const filePath = path.join(currentDir, file)
   const stats = fs.statSync(filePath)

   if (stats.isDirectory()) {
    if (!exclude_dirs.includes(file)) {
     traverseDirectory(filePath)
    }
   } else if (stats.isFile() && (file.endsWith('.ts') || file.endsWith('.tsx'))) {
    const fileInfo: FileInfo = {
     content: fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8'),
     path: currentDir,
     filename: file
    }
    fileList.push(fileInfo)
   }
  })
 }

 traverseDirectory(directory)

 // save to a json file so we don't have to do this on every run
 const jsonContent = JSON.stringify(fileList, null, 2)
 fs.writeFileSync('files.json', jsonContent)

  return fileList
}