Code-server: Pass flags to code

[lshamis]

Is there a way to pass flags through code-server to code? For example, how would I pass:
--user-data-dir=$HOME/vscode/data and --extensions-dir=$HOME/vscode/extensions?

[Aaaaash]

You can pass flags through code-server to vscode, in code-server packages/server/src/vscode/sharedProcess.ts pass some args to vscode SharedProcess

this.ipcHandler.once("handshake:hello", () => {
    const data: {
        sharedIPCHandle: string;
        args: Partial<ParsedArgs>;
        logLevel: Level;
    } = {
        args: {
            "builtin-extensions-dir": this.builtInExtensionsDir,
            "user-data-dir": this.userDataDir,
            "extensions-dir": extensionsDir,
        },
        logLevel: this.logger.level,
        sharedIPCHandle: this.socketPath,
    };
    this.ipcHandler!.send("handshake:hey there", "", data);
});

[kylecarbs]

We can update the CLI to include additional arguments.

[vnijs]

@kylecarbs Could you explain how --builtin-extensions-dir is supposed to be used? I could not find documentation. It seems that in 1.939 the --builtin-extensions-dir argument is unknown (see output below).

I hoped that this would be a way to install some extensions that would be available for all users on a server and/or a way to install extensions when building a docker image. The user would then still have --extensions-dir to install any extensions they want in addition to the ones already on the system or in the container. That would mean that code-server would have to look in two places for available extensions and give priority to --extensions-dir if that has a newer version for example. Thx

code-server --builtin-extensions-dir /opt/code-server/extensions --install-extension ms-python.python
error: unknown option `--builtin-extensions-dir'