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Today I read a post about Matthias Ott's VS Code setup. I love these posts because you can always discover new things.
After I finished reading it, it tweeted it and shared that you can also handle your VSCode extension setup via your terminal.
code --install-extension extensionAuthor.extensionName
So far, I've been maintaining a script in my dotfiles to manage my extensions. Meaning, whenever I added a new extension, I had to update this script manually. @shdli answered me with a way nicer approach. He called it a "manifest'y approach". ?
# backing up VS Code extensions
code --list-extensions > "./visual-studio-code-extensions.txt"
# installing VS Code extensions
cat "./visual-studio-code-extensions.txt" | xargs -L 1 code --install-extension
Using code --list-extensions I can install my extensions via VS Code and then generate the extension listing which will be re-used to install them. That's very sweet!
This new approach immediately led to me introducing commands like install and backup in my dotfiles. ?
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This content originally appeared on Stefan Judis Web Development and was authored by Stefan Judis
Stefan Judis | Sciencx (2020-03-18T22:00:00+00:00) A VS Code extensions manifest (#snippet). Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2020/03/18/a-vs-code-extensions-manifest-snippet/
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