Exporting Project Artifact Files in VS Code?

We have some custom tools that do project based deployment from environment to environment. In VS Code, we're struggling to find the best way to export PRJ files that contain the contents of a project the way we were able to in Studio. We can edit existing projects, and in server side editing we can create projects, but we can't seem to extract the project files (Not the classes, the wrapper) to store in our source control solution for deployment purposes.

I realize that a transition to ZPM would potentially render project files in this way unnecessary, but we're not there yet. Is there any intention to enable this functionality through the VS Code tools?