Answer by totymedli for How to exclude folder from "Explore" tab?

GUI way

1. Go to "File -> Preferences -> Settings" (or press Ctrl+,) then:Image may be NSFW.
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2. Type "exclude" to the search bar.
3. Select the "Workspace" tab if you want this change to only effect your current project instead of each one.
4. Click the "Add Pattern" button.

Code way

1. To open the settings.json file:

   • Press Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac, then type "Open Workspace Settings (JSON)".
   • OR, on older versions you can click the little {} icon at the top right corner of the GUI tab:Image may be NSFW.
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2. Add excluded folders to files.exclude. Also check out search.exclude and files.watcherExclude as they might be useful too. This snippet contains their explanations and defaults:

    {   // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders.    // For example, the files explorer decides which files and folders to show    // or hide based on this setting.    // Read more about glob patterns [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_advanced-search-options)."files.exclude": {"**/.git": true,"**/.svn": true,"**/.hg": true,"**/CVS": true,"**/.DS_Store": true   },   // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders in searches.    // Inherits all glob patterns from the `files.exclude` setting.      // Read more about glob patterns [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_advanced-search-options)."search.exclude": {"**/node_modules": true,"**/bower_components": true   },   // Configure glob patterns of file paths to exclude from file watching.    // Patterns must match on absolute paths    // (i.e. prefix with ** or the full path to match properly).    // Changing this setting requires a restart.    // When you experience Code consuming lots of cpu time on startup,    // you can exclude large folders to reduce the initial load."files.watcherExclude": {"**/.git/objects/**": true,"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,"**/node_modules/*/**": true   } }

For more details on the other settings, see the official settings.json reference.