How to initialize code-server with extensions, settings, shortcuts, etc. using config file?

[arita37]

We want to initialize code-server with some-preset
save into a yaml file on disk.

[jsjoeio]

Hi @arita37 - this is already possible, to some extent. If you look at the logs when code-server starts, it uses a config file somewhere on your machine like: ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml

Here's what the file looks like:

bind-addr: 127.0.0.1:8080
auth: password
password: helloworld
cert: false

Any flag that the CLI accepts should be configurable in the yaml file. Hope that helps! Please reopen if I misunderstood and you need something else!

[arita37]

How to pre-installed extensions ? Suppose I have extension on disk and wants to install them from config file at start and same for dakr mode, Shortcuts

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[jsjoeio]

A few things you can do:

• you could write a script that installs extensions like so: code-server --install-extension ms-python.python (see more)
• you could reuse your VS Code configuration (see more) (i.e. for dark mode or a theme) and it should work for shortcuts as well