Task Runner Configuration Missing in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I just installed Visual Studio 2017 and opened a solution I had been working in with Visual Studio 2015. It seems like everything works great except that the task runner explore

Answer 1

Although I have successfully been using Task Runner Explorer for other projects, even last night for example, all of a sudden today (11/17/2018) it stopped working. The solution was to go to Tools->Extensions And Updates and search (upper right corner) for NPM Task Runner and when it found that extension, I clicked the Enable button next to it. It gave me a warning that I needed to close and reopen Visual Studio 2017, and when I did, the -vs-binding for BeforeBuild in my package.json started working, and the items in Task Runner Explorer looked correct and started working again.