Hey All!
I’ve noticed a trend where teams and/or schools will create a VS Code extension pack, and use that to simplify the acquisition of all ext...
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That community college professor has a standardized extension pack for his students using VSCode? Wow. That's so dope.
That’s what I thought as well 😁
There's a great article here on how to do this.
medium.com/@sanik.bajracharya/vsco...
Also be sure to do npm i -g vsce to package your extension pack
Thanks for the link! I just updated the text to reference this article.
We haven't created extension packs yet, but a number of teams have started putting
.vscode/extensions.jsonfiles in their repos, so at least people are prompted to install a bunch. Each team has the autonomy to work differently, so we haven't standardised on a set of extensions for everyone yet.Why use custom extension Pack when you can share your settings using Settings Sync extension :)
Interesting! So you have multiple developers using the same Gist to sync extensions amongst themselves? I've seen the extension pack method used to synchronize a curated set of extensions amongst a team, that's focused on team-relevant extensions as opposed to user-specific personalizations/preferences.
Yes, the GitHub Gist will be shared amoung developers and the owner can only push into the gist allowing the users lists to download the settings.
Read post here:
How to share your visual studio code settings and extensions
Shan Khan ・ Aug 2 ・ 1 min read
Super timely info, as I didn't know you could do this and my web dev class meets for the first time this week! I'll return and share the link to my pack soon 👍
Actually, publishing this was easy! This is the extension pack I made for my students learning HTML and CSS this semester: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
Haven't gone so far as to publish it on the marketplace, but this is the extension pack my students are using this semester for intro to HTML + CSS: github.com/mica-web/vs-code-extJust to be clear, it installs the required/expected vscode extensions but it cannot install the actual dependencies of a project right?