Open VS Code in Same Window

In the past, I would always open new projects in VS code by navigating to them and running the simple and famous command:

code .

This command opens a new window with your project, leaving everything else untouched except for your system’s memory usage. This week, I finally decided to see what else was possible and it turns out you can replace the current window with the new one by appending the -r flag to the command:

code . -r

It stands for “reuse window” but for me its easier to remember it as “replace”.