April 4th, 2022: VS Code Tip of the Week

This week's tip is short and sweet.

My friend Chris on Twitter this week asked how do you open a project from a shell without opening another VS Code window.

Chris D. @ #DevNexus

@saltnburnem

How in the hell do you open a project in the current VS Code window from the integrated terminal w/o VS Code spinning up another instance?

01:56 AM - 30 Mar 2022

All you nee to do is add the -r flag to reuse the window, e.g.

code -r ./some-folder

or

code ./some-folder -r

The same goes for individual files.

code -r ./some-file.ext

or

code ./some-file.ext -r

Happy VS Coding!