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Discussion on: VS Code: Does your team or school use a custom “extension pack” to share their tooling stack?

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Shan Khan

Why use custom extension Pack when you can share your settings using Settings Sync extension :)

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Jonathan Carter

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.

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Shan Khan

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.

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