A 49-Component Import Refactor That Took Minutes Instead of an Afternoon

Batch refactoring across dozens of files is exactly the kind of tedious, error-prone work where AI agents outperform manual effort — not by writing clever algorithms, but by handling edge cases systematically and never getting sloppy on the 47th file. The plan-first workflow shown here (scan, map dependencies, surface edge cases, dry-run, execute, verify idempotency) is a repeatable pattern for any codebase migration.

uView Pro's 99 components relied entirely on uni-app's easycom auto-import mechanism, meaning no file contained explicit import statements for its internal dependencies. This broke two workflows: importing a single component without easycom, and renaming the component prefix to avoid conflicts with other libraries. The root cause was simple — templates referenced other components by tag name, but the script setup never declared them.

A TRAE Work agent was given the task in Plan mode. It scanned the directory, built a dependency map for all 49 affected components, and flagged edge cases: HTML comments containing component tags that should be ignored, and nested `<template>` blocks that broke naive regex extraction. The agent produced a Node.js script with dry-run preview and idempotent execution, then ran it to insert 82 import statements across the codebase with zero new type errors.

The entire job — analysis, planning, execution, and verification — completed in minutes. A manual approach would have taken an afternoon of repetitive file-by-file editing, with a high chance of missing dependencies inside nested templates or accidentally importing commented-out code.