Filter files shown in Visual Studio Code

Question

How would you filter files shown in folder view in Visual Studio Code?

Reference: Filter files shown in folder view

Answer 1

Hiding files and folders

The files.exclude setting lets you define patterns to hide files and folders from several places in VS Code like the explorer and search. Once defined, files and folders matching any of the patterns will be hidden.

{
    "files.exclude": {
        "**/*.js": true
    }
}

Hide derived resources

If you use a language that compiles to another file at the same location of the source file, like TypeScript does to JavaScript, you can easily set an expression to hide those derived files:

"**/*.js": { "when": "$(basename).ts"}

Such a pattern will match on any JavaScript file (**/*.js), but only if a sibling file with the same name and extension, *.ts in this example, is present. The same technique can be used for other transpiled languages, like Coffee Script or Less/Sass, too.

Source: VS Code v0.5.0 (July 2015)

Answer 2

If you only want to change the setting for this project, then do the following:

File > Save Workspace As > ... enter your {project name}

Then open file: {project name}.code-workspace And update section settings.

Sample:

{
    "folders": [
        {
            "path": "."
        }
    ],
    "settings": {
        "files.exclude": {
            "**/*.log": true
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

"With the focus on the File Explorer start to type part of the file name you want to match.You will see a filter box in the top-right of the File Explorer showing what you have typed so far and matching file names will be highlighted."

"Hovering over the filter box and selecting Enable Filter on Type will show only matching files/folders."

documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_filtering-the-document-tree