如何从 shell 脚本从 VSCode 终端运行命令？

Question

I am trying to make simple shell script where it will launch a couple of projects in the same directory at the same time then run npm script to start server/dev mode.

For instance, lets just assume I have api, web-client, admin-client.
I want my shell script to do following:

If file name matches the file I want to open with VSCode, then it will launch.code command. Then not inside the current terminal that I am running shell script, but inside the "VSCode" terminal, I would like to run npm script recursively for all the files within the same directory.

The purpose of this is to automate routine setup process to start up development.

Question: How to run a command from VScode terminal when I am running below shell script on external terminal?

below is my current code:

for D in ./*;
  do
    if [ -d "$D" ]; then
        cd "$D"
        mydir="$(basename $PWD)"
        if [ $mydir == "api" ]
          then
            echo launching $mydir ...
            code .
            #command to run inside vscode : npm run start:server
            cd ..
        elif [ $mydir == "web-frontend" ]
          then
            echo launching $mydir ...
            code .
            cd ..
        elif [ $mydir == "admin-frontend" ]
          then
            echo launching $mydir ...
            code .
            
            cd ..
        else
          cd ..
        fi
    fi
  done