vscli

A CLI tool to launch vscode projects, which supports devcontainers.

Features

• A shorthand for launching vscode projects
• Detects whether a project is a devcontainers project, and launches the devcontainer instead
• Supports the insiders version of vscode

Installation

Cargo

Install vscli using cargo on Windows or Linux:

sh cargo install vscli

Homebrew

Install vscli using homebrew on Linux:

sh brew install michidk/tools/vscli

Chocolatey

Install vscli using Chocolatey on Windows:

sh choco install vscli

Additional steps

You can set a shorthand alias for vscli in your shell's configuration file:

sh alias vs="vscli --verbosity error"

Usage

Commandline

After installation, the vscli command will be available:

```sh Usage: vscli [OPTIONS] [PATH] [ARGS]...

Arguments: [PATH] The path of the vscode project to open

      [default: .]

[ARGS]... Aditional arguments to pass to vscode

Options: -b, --behaviour Launch behaviour

      [default: detect]

      Possible values:
      - detect:          Use devcontainer if it was detected
      - force-container: Force open with devcontainer, even if no config was found
      - force-classic:   Ignore devcontainers

-i, --insiders Whether to launch the insiders version of vscode

-v, --verbosity The verbosity of the output

      [default: info]

-h, --help Print help (see a summary with '-h') ```

Examples

You can launch a project using the default behaviour:

sh vscli # open vscode in the current directory vscli . # open vscode in the current directory vscli /path/to/project # open vscode in the specified directory

The default behaviour tries to dectect whether the project is a devcontainers project. If it is, it will launch the devcontainer instead - if not it will launch vscode normally.

You can change the launch behvaiour using the --behaviour flag:

sh vscli --behaviour force-container . # force open vscode devcontainer (even if vscli did not detect a devcontainer) vscli --behaviour force-classic . # force open vscode without a devcontairer (even if vscli did detect a devcontainer)

You can launch the insiders version of vscode using the --insiders flag:

sh vscli --insiders . # open vscode insiders in the current directory

Additional arguments can be passed to the code executable, by specifying them after --:

sh vscli . -- --disable-gpu # open vscode in the current directory without GPU hardware acceleration

Read more about the code flags, by executing code --help.