I'm developing an extension in vscode, and using vsce to package it into a .vsix file.
I noticed a typo in my description in my extension's package.json, noticeable when the extension is installed and loaded in the extension tab. So I fixed it and re-ran vsce package in ~/extension_name/client/ and re-installed the extension, but the typo remains.
I've double checked I'm not installing the wrong .vsix file. I've ran npm install in ~/extension_name/client/. I've even committed my changes to a branch in git, downloaded that branch and packaged it, no luck.
Do I need to run another command to get vsce to realise there are changes to include? How can I determine what version of the code vsce is packaging up?
I've had the same issue in the past, where I repackaged an extension with the same version and it didn't get installed properly.
VSCode installs extensions to ~/.vscode/extensions, so you can inspect the code in your extension's directory there. I think VSCode is just failing to overwrite the existing extension there, so try deleting the extension within that folder and then installing the .vsix again.
To see the contents of the .vsix file, you can change the file extension to .zip. (See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/quanto/2009/05/26/what-is-a-vsix/)
For VSCode extensions, there should be an 'extension' folder inside it which has all of your code.