Feature Request: api to custom files sort order at the sidebar

[atian25]

• VSCode Version: 1.5.2
• OS Version: mac

[chrmarti]

What's the use case you're after?

[atian25]

I want to write a plugin to let some lib in node_modules to show at top, because need to explore them frequently

or detect which modules isrequire at project directly, then show them at top

[yvbeek]

It would be great if VS Code would allow a custom sort of the files view.

In TypeScript, module resolution automatically processes index.ts files. It would be great to change the sorting so that the index.ts file is at the top.

For example:

[] reducers
   estimates.ts
   index.ts
   locations.ts

Would become:

[] reducers
   index.ts
   estimates.ts
   locations.ts

[denizdogan]

I'm also looking for this functionality, I'd really like it if VSCode could put index.js at the top and README.md at the bottom, for example!

[isidorn]

Duplicate of #27286