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

You can use the ${file} wildcard to pass the current file to your build program/script.

There's an example given in the docs for TS: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks#_operating-system-specific-properties

{
    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "presentation": {
        "panel": "new"
    },
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "TS - Compile current file",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "tsc ${file}",
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$tsc"
            ]
        }
    ]
}