Preread: VsCode Multi-root Workspaces

Goal: #

  • The goal of this post is to sync all Local DEV Setup related settings/configs from a remote git repo that centralizes the configs
    • WT settings
      • Settings
    • WSL Settings
      • WSL Global Config - Config file in Windows
      • WSL Distro specific Config - Config file in WSL Distro Example: Debian
    • VSCode Settings
      • Windows - VSCode Client settings
      • WSL - VSCode Server Settings
      • Multi-root-workspace Settings
        • Commons
        • Specific
          • Example:
            • FE projects specific configs
            • BE projects specific configs

Sync all the settings(windows, wsl, MultoRootLevel) -> LocalClone -> Remote Git Windows to WSL Symbolic Link Note: VS Code already has Settings sync feature. But, I would like to have my own sync workflow.

  • Here is my local vscode setup structure. This post is preference based and may not be the right choice for every dev and it’s working for me so far.

Implementation #

  • Sync Windows Level settings.json
  • Sync WSL Level settings.json

    • ln -s ~/work/srk/mono-workspace/my-vscode-central-settings/windows-wsl-your-workspace-folder/wsl/settings.json /home/srk/.vscode-server/data/Machine/settings.json

  • Sync Multiroot workspace level settings
    • My VsCode LocalSetup in Windows Note: All the workspaces mentioned in the above image are Multi-root workspaces.

  • And these multi-root workspaces are categorized into

    • Org Space(~/work/<org>)
      • mono-workspace-be
        • Contains Backend projects
      • mono-workspace-fe
        • Contains Frontend projects
      • srk-lab
        • This is for quick proof of concepts.
        • This contains a .local dir which in itself is a local git repo that contains notes, learnings related to org/team specific projects.
    • Personal Space(~/work/srk)
      • mono-workspace
        • This contains personal learning, and passion projects
        • Learning, All System Designs, Code challenges etc
        • This might contain open source projects and anything that I love to create