I want to add a task to VS Code so that by running it, I will be able to run 'npm run dev' command. what should I add to my task.json file? currently it's like this:
{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks": [
{
"label": "build",
"type": "shell",
"command": "msbuild",
"args": [
"/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
"/t:build",
"/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
],
"group": "build",
"presentation": {
"reveal": "silent"
},
"problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
},
{
"type": "npm",
"script": "dev",
"path": "client",
"problemMatcher": [],
"label": "npm: dev - client",
"detail": "vite"
},
{
"type": "npm",
"script": "install",
"path": "client",
"group": "clean",
"problemMatcher": [],
"label": "npm: install - client",
"detail": "install dependencies from package"
}
]
}
For many cases, you might not even need to write a task for this manually. VS Code has a feature called "Task Auto-Detection", which includes automatically adding tasks for NPM scripts in your package.json file.
Just open the menu to select a task to run using Tasks: Run Task
in the command palette, open the "npm" sub-menu, and then select your script from that sub-menu.
If you want to debug your script instead of just running it, use the Debug: Debug npm script
command.