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Dev tools · December 13, 2021

CodeOpen

An easy way to open programming projects, from the CLI!

CodeOpen launched on December 13, 2021 with 88 votes, #469 of 2,707 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

A productivity tool that helps you to open your programming projects faster and simpler, directly from the command line!

With a simple interface and minimal configuration, even a hotdog could do it! I've always found that it takes a bunch of effort and a long time typing file paths. To open up a file in VSCode, I would do something like code ~/Documents/programming/really/long/file/path . This became just a tiny tiny bit irritating and took me a bit to open up my projects. And since I'm just that bit lazy, I made CodeOpen. Now, you no longer have to type that really long command; instead you can just do codeopen project . The project argument is something that you specify in the config file. To read more on the config file, read thefrom codeopen.vercel.app

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