Open in Visual Studio Code Workflow for Alfred 4/5

This workflow provides searching your projects and opening them in Visual Studio Code through the keyword code in the search box of your Alfred.

And it also adds a File Action Open in Visual Studio Code in your Alfred.

Installation

You can download this workflow from Releases page

INFO: This workflow contains Node.js scripts. If you have not installed Node.js runtime, you should download the workflow file that contains Node.js binary file. (The larger one in the Releases page) Or you can download and install Node.js before using this workflow.

Install from Source Code

npm install
./scripts/install-workflow.sh

Configurations

Alfred Workflow Environment Variables

All boolean variables accept values 0, false, no and off as falsy values. And they treat 1, true, yes and on as true.

• cache_enabled: set it to falsy value to disable cache (1 by default)
• scan_code_workspace: set it to falsy value to disable scanning the projects that opened in Visual Studio Code (1 by default)
• scan_directories: set it to falsy value to disable scanning the directories on the disk for projects (1 by default)
• prepend_path: DOCS...
• vscode_command: TODO
• vscode_app_name: TODO

Configuration File for Scanning

You can create a configuration file named .open-in-vscode.json in your home directory.
Or you can create or edit it by keyword code config in Alfred. (this command creates config from example if there is not config file in your home directory)

Here is an example config:

{
  "baseDirs": [
    "~/Documents",
    "~/Projects"
  ],
  "attachDirs": [
    "/Volumes/External HDD/ExampleProject"
  ],
  "maxDepth": 3,
  "pruningName": [
    "/^[._]/",
    "node_modules",
    "cache",
    "dist",
    "logs"
  ],
  "projectFiles": [
    ".git",
    ".svn",
    ".hg",
    ".vscode",
    ".idea",
    "package.json",
    "Makefile",
    "README.md"
  ],
  "customPrefixes": {
    "/": "/",
    "~/": "~/",
    "docs/": "~/Documents/"
  }
}

License

GPL-3.0

Author

Liu Yue @hangxingliu