vscd

Visual Studio Code package merger (vscd).

The package.json file is getting rather large for big extensions. This command line tool will search for all contributes.json files in current working directory to build up the package.json.

Each contributes.json file must contain the contributes property. That is the only property that gets looked at.

Arguments

• --clean (optional, recommended) - the existing package.json contributions will be ignored and will be re-built from the contributes.json files.
• -d <dir> (optional) - force vscd to use another directory other than your working directory.

Guide

1. Install vscd as a devDependency: npm i vscd --save-dev
2. Update your build process to invoke vscd:

"scripts": {
  "package": "vsce package",
  "vscode:prepublish": "rm -rf dist && npm run build",
  "webpack": "vscd --clean && webpack --mode development",
},