Start View

A Home button in the VS Code activity bar that opens a Start view, with quick-access buttons for getting into a project.

The button is there in every window, and a window with no folder opens on the Start view. The buttons are grouped by where your project lives:

Group	Button	Shown when
Local	Open Folder	Always
Local	Project Manager	Project Manager is installed
Repository	Open Remote Repository	GitHub Repositories is installed
Repository	Clone Repository	Always
Remote	Remote Explorer	Remote Explorer, Remote - SSH or WSL is installed
Remote	WSL Explorer	WSL Manager is installed

Buttons that depend on another extension appear and disappear as you install or remove it, with no reload.

VS Code places the Home button below its built-in activity bar icons. Drag it to the top once and VS Code keeps it there.

Install

Install Start View from the Visual Studio Marketplace, or search for MiguelMariz.start-view in the Extensions view. VS Code then keeps it up to date.

Each GitHub release also has the .vsix attached. To install one, run Extensions: Install from VSIX... from the Command Palette. A copy installed this way does not update automatically.

Requires VS Code 1.74 or later.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/mordilloSan/vscode-start-view.git
cd vscode-start-view
make build

This writes start-view-<version>.vsix to the folder; install it with Extensions: Install from VSIX....

Settings

Every setting except startView.hideWhenFolderOpen is on by default.

Setting	What it does
`startView.openOnStartup`	Open the Start view when a window starts with no folder.
`startView.hideWhenFolderOpen`	Hide the Home button in windows that have a folder or workspace open.
`startView.items.openFolder`	Show the Open Folder button.
`startView.items.projectManager`	Show the Project Manager button.
`startView.items.openRemoteRepository`	Show the Open Remote Repository button.
`startView.items.cloneRepository`	Show the Clone Repository button.
`startView.items.remoteExplorer`	Show the Remote Explorer button.
`startView.items.wslExplorer`	Show the WSL Explorer button.

A group heading disappears when all of its buttons are hidden.

Start View

Miguel Mariz

Start View

Install

Build from source

Settings