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Spook
Spook

Reputation: 25927

How to define additional default tasks in VS Code?

I'm often using VS Code for Html/Css/Js development. I'm often using the following task (from other SO post) to open HTML page in browser:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "explorer",    
    "windows": {
        "command": "explorer.exe"
    },
    "args": ["${file}"]
}

Is there a way to add this task as default one for all folders?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 493

Answers (1)

Llewey
Llewey

Reputation: 9222

The short answer is "no".

The slightly longer answer is, "no, but they are thinking about ways this can be done" as demonstrated in this issue.

A workaround is to add a snippet that you can easily add to tasks.json in new projects. Go to File > Preferences > User Snippets > json and add something like this:

"Explorer Task": {
    "prefix": "expTask",
    "body": [
        '{',
            '\t"version": "0.1.0",',
            '\t"command": "explorer",',    
            '\t"windows": {',
                '\t\t"command": "explorer.exe"',
            '\t},',
            '\t"args": ["${file}"]',
        '}'
    ],
    "description": "Explorer task that I use so often"
},

Now when you go to tasks.json in any new project, you type expTask (or whatever you name it) and you can easily drop this in.

Upvotes: 1

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