diff --git a/build/gulpfile.vscode.js b/build/gulpfile.vscode.js
index 5972917e9a2..9607bf55897 100644
--- a/build/gulpfile.vscode.js
+++ b/build/gulpfile.vscode.js
@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ function packageTask(platform, arch, opts) {
 			all = es.merge(all, gulp.src('resources/win32/code_file.ico', { base: '.' }));
 		} else if (platform === 'linux') {
 			all = es.merge(all, gulp.src('resources/linux/code.png', { base: '.' }));
+		} else if (platform === 'darwin') {
+			var shortcut = gulp.src('resources/darwin/bin/code.sh')
+				.pipe(rename('bin/code'));
+
+			all = es.merge(all, shortcut);
 		}
 
 		var result = all
diff --git a/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh b/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..7d773bfd34e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+function realpath() { python -c "import os,sys; print os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1])" "$0"; }
+CONTENTS="$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")")")")"
+ELECTRON="$CONTENTS/MacOS/Electron"
+CLI="$CONTENTS/Resources/app/out/cli.js"
+ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" "$@"
+exit $?
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