Dev Containers - Create Multiple Terminal Windows When a Command is An Object (Consistent With GitHub Codespaces)

[davidteather]

When defining a command like

"postAttachCommand": {
		"website": "cd website && npm run dev",
		"api": "cd backend/api && go run cmd/main.go",
		"event_listener": "cd backend/event-listener && go run cmd/main.go"
	},

Currently VS Code Locally Dev Container will run all of these in the same terminal window

However, it would be really nice if this worked like how GitHub Codespaces currently does, which spawns a different terminal window for each command specified in that object.

[akosyakov]

Another difference between Codespaces and the devcontainer extension that terminals are reused between window reload, i.e. postAttachCommand does not seem to run multiple times in Codespaces. With the devcontainer extension although each window reload would create more and more processes.

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[davidteather]

womp womp 😔