VS Code Tip of the Week: Add a gitignore via VS Code

This week's tip of the week is coming from my old coworker @citizen428. On one my streams on livecoding.ca, I show you how you can add a gitignore file to a project via npx gitignore.

Little did I know this is baked into VS Code!

Press CTRL + Shift + P (CMD + Shift + P on macOS) to open the command palette.

Type in Add gitignore in the command palette.

You'll be presented with a language to generate the gitignore file for.

And there you go! You have a fresh gitgnore file in your repository now!

Happy VS Coding!

Comments

[Alex Patterson]

Nice I always google for this, constantly forget it is there!

[Francis Provost]

I'm usually going to gitignore.io but that's a really great alternative!

[Anton Georgiev]

You need to have the gitignore VS Code extension installed before you can type Add gitignore in the command palette.