vscode-linux-bootsrap

Set of script to install and manage standalone vscode instances, with different extensions set

Motivation

Single instance of vscode with multiple extensions for different workflows start to work very slow, and get unexpected bugs in interaction. So there is simple solution that allow to manage multiple vscode instances.

Getting started

Vscode binaries installs to pwd, and script expects to launch from directory where instances has been installed

Install

Install all binaries and extension from versions/$version.extension-list and versions/_default.extension-list. Create symlinks /usr/local/bin/vscode-$version to launch this instance and fetch config

# scripts need wget for fetch vscode executables
sudo apt install wget 
mkdir -p ~/tools/vscodes

cd tools
git clone [email protected]:iliser/vscode-linux-bootstrap.git

cd vscodes
../vscode-linux-bootsrap/install.sh $version

Update

Preserve current user data and installed extensions and update vscode binaries

cd ~/tools/vscode/
../vscode-linux-bootsrap/update.sh $version

Delete

Delete binaries and symlink

cd ~/tools/vscode/
../vscode-linux-bootsrap/delete.sh $version