Define multiple tasks in VSCode

Question

I have seen that it is possible to define a task in the VSCode. But I am not sure how to define multiple tasks in the tasks.json file.

Answer 1

As of the February 2017 release, you can use Terminal Runner and compose multiple tasks by setting up dependency tasks. It's a little funky in that it will open up a separate integrated terminal for each task, which you have to watch to see if things work and remember to close (they "stack"), and you don't get a "done" notification, but it gets the job done. The functionality is preliminary but it is promising. Here's is an example to run tsc and jspm for a Cordova app.

{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks": [{
        "taskName": "tsc",
        "command": "tsc",
        "isShellCommand": true,
        "args": ["-p", "."],
        "showOutput": "always",
        "problemMatcher": "$tsc"
    }, {
        "taskName": "jspm",
        "command": "jspm",
        "isShellCommand": true,
        "args": ["bundle-sfx", "www/app/main.js", "www/dist/bundle.js", "--inline-source-maps", "--source-map-contents"],
        "showOutput": "always"
    },
    {
        "taskName": "build",
        "isBuildCommand": true,
        "dependsOn": ["tsc", "jspm"]
    }]
}