Exporting fields for content type The configuration export feature of Drupal 8 would seem to be a very useful feature. However, I'm not sure I completely understand how it works. 

For example, if I do a single export, choose "Content type" then select one of my content types, I would expect that export to contain a full description of that content type. But it doesn't contain any information about the fields in that content type. So if you wanted to export a content type configuration for use on another site, it doesn't seem possible to do that. 

I'm not sure I understand the use of being to do Single exports if they don't contain all the required data for an entity. Am I missing something?
UPDATE

You might also try Drupal Console's drupal config:export:content:type command. 

It's description says:


  The config:export:content:type command Export a specific content type
  and their fields.




Content types and Fields are 2 separate configuration in Drupal 8, so if you want to export content type with fields you have to export all it's fields configurations too.

Features module might be helpful for grouping configurations, it's not stable yet, I haven't tried it but I think it might worth trying.