Working with the SharePoint Framework in Visual Studio Code

When you start working with SPFx-based projects, you often navigate through the folders through Windows' Command Prompt. You can then quickly open Visual Studio Code in the current folder by typing:

    code .

This is the equivalent of first opening VS Code, pressing Ctrl + K, Ctrl + O, and finding the correct folder to work with.

Running commands with the Integrated Terminal

When developing SPFx-projects, you often need to run specific commands on a command line, such as instructing Gulp to do certain things. You can use the Integrated Terminal in VS Code to run them directly, instead of hopping between two different windows.

To open the Integrated Terminal, from the top toolbar select View | Integrated Terminal. You can also show it by first opening Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and typing integrated:

This opens a smaller terminal window in the lower right area of VS Code and places the current path to the same that your project...