How to open Visual Studio Code with admin privileges to make effect of the installed extensions
To run with superuser:
$ sudo code --user-data-dir=~/root
By the way you will be able to run without setting params in the upcoming patch 1.5.0.
You can press Shift+Cmd+P in visual studio code and type:
shell command
and press "install" in the PATH
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Then in your terminal go to the folder that you want to open and type "code ." It'll open the project in visual studio code as root.