I meant to get VSCode to work as a decent development environment, more generally.
for me, a TS using node nerd, vs code does these things well:
1. ts language server
2. decent plugins (that i can commit to scm)
3. yarn 2 support
4. nice debugger interaction
Off the top of my head, VSCode lacks a decent code formatter and a "search everywhere"-type command palette. And the Git and database support is not good either, but that's kind of a given.