TL;DR

Stuck with “No pubspec.yaml found” when building Flutter APKs in a multi-root VSCode workspace? Fix it in 3 steps:

• perfect workspace naming,
• cwd overrides,
• emulator-ready URLs.

The Problem

• Top-level folder with 2 separate Git repos:
  • flutter_app/ (Flutter)
  • fastapi_backend/ (Python)
• Flutter .vscode/tasks.json ignored in parent.
• Tasks fail: “Must be run from root of Flutter project” or “No pubspec.yaml found”.

I have written earlier that I’ve started using VSCode occasionally for work. Finding files and find-in-files is much better and faster.

But I do miss modal editing.

That is where VSpaceCode comes in.

VSpaceCode is Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

I had come across VSpaceCode almost two years ago

I was using VSCodium at that time (hoping it is faster than VSCode - it isn’t - on my old machine) and could not install VSpaceCode.

I installed and used VSCode on office provided MBP yesterday. It is not like I have not used it in past. I tried vscode-vim plugin for modal editing. It allows you to embed neovim in VSCode (So all the configuration of neovim is available here.)

But on my old machine, it was slow.

(I also tried VSCodium, thinking it might be faster. It wasn’t)

I used it exclusively for Dendron (my PKM) cause it is mainly VSCode plugin (While it has command line tools, the main strength is as VScode plugin)