When developing SPFx-projects, you often need to run specific commands on a command line, such as instructing Gulp to do certain things. You can use the Integrated Terminal in VS Code to run them directly, instead of hopping between two different windows.
To open the Integrated Terminal, from the top toolbar select View | Integrated Terminal. You can also show it by first opening Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and typing integrated:
This opens a smaller terminal window in the lower right area of VS Code and places the current path to the same that your project is in. You can now run commands directly here, such as gulp serve to start up your project in a local SharePoint Workbench.
