# Notebook-specific startup script in IJulia Notebooks in VS Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebook-specific-startup-script-in-ijulia-notebooks-in-vs-code/102283>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** jupyter, vscode, ijulia, startup\
**Created:** [July 31, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebook-specific-startup-script-in-ijulia-notebooks-in-vs-code/102283 "2023-07-31T03:09:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebook-specific-startup-script-in-ijulia-notebooks-in-vs-code/102283/1 "2023-07-31T03:09:04Z")

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When working with Jupyter notebooks, I prefer VS Code’s Jupyter extension over browser-based Notebook or JupyterLab. But it looks like VS Code’s implementation of Julia Jupyter notebooks is something different from IJulia (`isdefined(Main, :IJulia)` returns `false` in VS Code but `true` in JupyterLab).

As a result, my `startup_ijulia.jl` script doesn’t get run.

Is there any way to make VS Code run it?

I’ve discovered the `jupyter.runStartupCommands` setting in the VS Code Jupyter extension’s `settings.json` but it looks like it only takes python commands or IPython magics, which presumably wouldn’t help.

Maybe I can add something to `startup.jl` (which does get run) that conditions on it being run from VS Code’s Jupyter Extension specifically? That’s a bit hokey, and I don’t know how to condition on that – `ENV["TERM_PROGRAM"]` doesn’t seem to get set in Jupyter notebooks…

Anyone have any other ideas? TIA.