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~400 times by year 1 :

• open VS Code
• open one terminal
• divide the terminal into 2 parts
• run "npm run hot" (first split)
• leave the other split terminal empty
• open a second terminal (with "+" button)
• split it into 3 parts
• run "php artisan websockets:serve" (first part)
• run "php artisan queue:words" (second part)
• run "maidev --ip=localhost" (third part)
• and finally I can start to work

I'm sure I am not alone with this problem. Would anyone have a method to optimize that with one command or configuration ?

Thanks for your help !

Answers

Okay, a day after answering this with other two answers, I saw this extension: Restore Terminals at this other question https://stackoverflow.com/a/62595681/836330

This extension seems to work quite well. Put this into your settings.json:

  "restoreTerminals.runOnStartup": false,   // true is the default
          // set to false if using a keybinding or the command palette

  "restoreTerminals.terminals": [
    {
      "splitTerminals": [
        {
          "name": "server",
          "commands": [
            "npm run test"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "empty",
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "splitTerminals": [
        {
          "name": "websockets",
          "commands": [
            "ls -l"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "queue",
          "commands": [
            "cd zip",
            "gulp sass"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "maidev",
          "commands": [
            "cd zip-multiple",
            "gulp"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],

And a keybinding:

{
  "key": "shift+alt+t",    // whatever keybinding if you wish
  "command": "restore-terminals.restoreTerminals",
},

If on Windows, I would still use the setting:

 "terminal.integrated.windowsEnableConpty": false

as the same issue occurs when using this extension as any other method to open and write to terminals quickly - if you then try to close the terminals vscode will hang and eventually timeout and need to be reopened.