Automatically spawn integrated terminal windows and split terminals, and run any shell commands when VSCode starts up!
Simply configure your VSCode settings JSON file to look something like this:
"restoreTerminals.terminals": [
{
"splitTerminals": [
{
"name": "server",
"commands": ["npm i", "npm run dev"]
},
{
"name": "client",
"commands": ["npm run dev:client"]
},
{
"name": "test",
"commands": ["jest --watch"]
}
]
},
{
"splitTerminals": [
{
"name": "build & e2e",
"commands": ["npm run eslint", "npm run build", "npm run e2e"]
},
{
"name": "worker",
"commands": ["npm-run-all --parallel redis tsc-watch-start worker"]
}
]
}
]
The outer array represents a integrated VSCode terminal window, and the splitTerminals array contains the information about how each terminal window should be split up.
The order of split terminals from left to right is the order in the array.
You can manually trigger the restoration of terminals by running Restore Terminals in the command palette.
If you find the extension glitching out, try increasing the restoreTerminals.artificialDelayMilliseconds setting to a higher number, such as 1000.
If you do not want this extension to close the currently open terminal windows, you can simply set restoreTerminals.keepExistingTerminalsOpen to true.
If you do not want it to restore terminals on VSCode startup, but instead only run when you trigger it manually from the command palette, then set restoreTerminals.runOnStartup to false.
If you don't like using split terminals, then just provide one object in each split terminal array, which should be the intuitive thing to do.
Contributions to the code are very welcome and much appreciated!
Enjoy!