So far everything in here is related to VS Code and also will work outside GitHub. Other useful sections would be the EditorConfig and other configs.

Add settings file

Use force if it is globally ignored.

git add -f .vscode/*

Disable auto format on save

  • .vscode/settings.json 
      {
      "editor.formatOnSave": false
  }

System default is false. So if your user setting is true, then you can only set to true as well or untick and the config option (and file if it’s empty) disappears. So you need to add it as true and then manually edit it. Or create if from scratch.

Recommend extensions

Add this to your repo and when the repo is opened with VS Code then you’ll get a prompt to install all or view the file.

Example:

  • .vscode/extensions.json 
      {
      // See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827846
      // for the documentation about the extensions.json format
      "recommendations": [
          "ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin"
      ]
  }

Settings

A VS Code settings file added to a repo.

The example below is for a TypeScript project.

  • .vscode/settings.json 
      // Place your settings in this file to overwrite default and user settings.
  {
      "files.exclude": {
          "out": false // set this to true to hide the "out" folder with the compiled JS files
      },
      "search.exclude": {
          "out": true // set this to false to include "out" folder in search results
      },
      // Turn off tsc task auto detection since we have the necessary tasks as npm scripts
      "typescript.tsc.autoDetect": "off"
  }