VS Code Tip of the Week: Open a Project from the Shell into same VS Code Window

VS Code Tip of the Week: Open a Project from the Shell into same VS Code Window

Play this article

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.

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!