Build currently opened file in Visual Studio Code

Question

I have a workspace that I use for smaller test programs I write to practice concepts. Hence, in VS Code, I have a build task for each file in the folder.

By default,

Answer 1

To Build on Rob's Answer, you can also set a shortcut key combination to trigger each task by adding to keybindings.json, e.g.

{
    "key": "ctrl+h",
    "command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
    "args": "Run tests"
}

where the args component is replaced with the task name.

You could use this in combination with ${file} in tasks.json to differentiate between the separate build types.

e.g. hit Ctrl+h for python and Ctrl+Shift+h for tsc