How can I export settings?

With the current version of Visual Studio Code as of this writing (1.22.1), you can find your settings in

• ~/.config/Code/User on Linux (in my case, an, Ubuntu derivative)
• %APPDATA%\Code\User (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Code\User) on Windows
• ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/ on Mac OS X (thank you, Christophe De Troyer)

The files are settings.json and keybindings.json. Simply copy them to the target machine.

Your extensions are in

• ~/.vscode/extensions on Linux and Mac OS X
• %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions (C:\Users\username\.vscode\extensions) on Windows (i.e., essentially the same place as on Linux and Mac OS X)

Alternately, just go to the Extensions, show installed extensions, and install those on your target installation. For me, copying the extensions worked just fine, but it may be extension-specific, particularly if moving between platforms, depending on what the extension does.

There is an extension for Visual Studio Code, called Settings Sync.

It synchronises your settings by gist (Gist by GitHub). It works the same as the Atom.io extension called settings-sync.

UPDATE:

This feature is now build in VS Code, it is worth to switch to official feature. (https://stackoverflow.com/a/64035356/2029818)

You can now sync all your settings across devices with VSCode's built-in Settings Sync. It's found under Code > Preferences > Turn on Settings Sync...

Similar to the answer given by Big Rich you can do the following:

$ code --list-extensions | xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension

This will list out your extensions with the command to install them so you can just copy and paste the entire output into your other machine:

Example:

code --install-extension EditorConfig.EditorConfig
code --install-extension aaron-bond.better-comments
code --install-extension christian-kohler.npm-intellisense
code --install-extension christian-kohler.path-intellisense
code --install-extension CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer

It is taken from the answer given here.

Note: Make sure you have added VS Code to your path beforehand. On mac you can do the following:

1. Launch Visual Studio Code
2. Open the Command Palette (⇧ + ⌘ + P) and type 'shell command' to find the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.