Collapse and Expand the View Bar in visual studio code shortcut key

Question

Is there a shortcut key to collapse and expand the view bar (the left vertical menu) in visual studio code?

With the mouse, I can do that, by click any item twice in the view bar such as Explorer, Search, SCM etc, and the view bar collapses.

How to do that using keyboard?

The following shows expanded and then collapsed.

Answer 1

You can define custom key-binding in VS Code (on windows).

To open keyboard shortcuts, use ctrl + k, ctrl + s.

If you want to toggle Activity Bar visibility ctrl+alt+\.

{
    "key": "ctrl+alt+oem_5",
    "command": "workbench.action.toggleActivityBarVisibility"
},

If you want to toggle Sidebar visibility ctrl+\.

{
    "key": "ctrl+oem_5",
    "command": "workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility"
},

Answer 2

You should be able to archieve this using Ctrl + B.