Blender VS Code

Options for using VS Code as an editor of scripts to run in Blender:

The Blender VS Code Extension

https://github.com/JacquesLucke/blender_vscode

This looks the most promising!

https://youtu.be/q06-hER7Y1Q

The Blender Editor

https://github.com/JacquesLucke/code_autocomplete

Maybe it can be made more worthwhile, but this is here mostly for completeness.

Using Blender as a Python module

https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/User:Ideasman42/BlenderAsPyModule

Executing Blender using a file watcher

https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/blender-script

Having a Blender script which loads an external file and interprets it

There should be two options: run script which reads a file and executes it and another which is more robuts and auto-reloads the script?

as_module New Thing in Blender 2.80

This could be interesting, whatever it is.

To-Do

https://b3d.interplanety.org/en/using-microsoft-visual-studio-code-as-external-ide-for-writing-blender-scripts-add-ons/