🌧️ Introduction

Visual Studio Code has been de facto choice of front-end development.
What do you usually use for front-end development? NPM packages.

🤔 Problem

As you are navigating JavaScript code, you are bound to stumble upon a code in node_modules folder.

And It’s a pain 😠 to scroll all the way up and close it.

So how do you quickly close node_modules folder?

📜 TL;DR

Press and hold down the ⬅️ left arrow key.

Yeah, seriously that’s it.
It works in Windows Explorer and Atom, as well.

Here is the live action.

This will save you at most 5~10 seconds but it will add up.
I've been stuck in node_modules folder hell so many times and decided to share this tip.

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