Toggle the visibility of dotfiles (files and folders starting with .) in the VS Code Explorer with a single click.

Features

One-click toggle — Eye icon in the Explorer title bar to show/hide dotfiles
Persistent state — Your preference is remembered across sessions
Workspace defaults — Project maintainers can set hiddenByDefault in .vscode/settings.json
Custom patterns — Hide additional files/folders beyond dotfiles (e.g. node_modules, dist)

Getting Started

Setting	Type	Default	Description
`binarii-hidden.hiddenByDefault`	`boolean`	`false`	Hide dotfiles by default when opening a workspace
`binarii-hidden.extraPatterns`	`string[]`	`[]`	Additional glob patterns to hide when the toggle is active

Project maintainers can add this to .vscode/settings.json to hide dotfiles by default for all contributors:

{
  "binarii-hidden.hiddenByDefault": true,
  "binarii-hidden.extraPatterns": [
    "node_modules",
    "dist",
    "*.log"
  ]
}

Individual users can always override by clicking the eye icon — this modifies their user settings, not the workspace.

The extension toggles the **/.* pattern (plus any extraPatterns) in files.exclude at the user (global) configuration level. This means:

MIT