How to dynamically query my VSCode extension version from the extension code?

Question

I'm writing an extension for VSCode. I would like to get the runtime version of the extension from its own code. Is there a way to do that?

I found VSCode.extensions.getExtension('myExtensionId').packageJSON but I don't know what to do with that.

Answer 1

I was finally close. Using:

VSCode.extensions.getExtension('publisher.myExtensionId').packageJSON.version

seems to do the trick.