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

This functionality was added in Visual Studio Code v1.9 (January 2017). Example and text come from the release notes:

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "taskName": "tsc",
      "command": "tsc",
      "args": ["-w"],
      "isShellCommand": true,
      "isBackground": true,
      "problemMatcher": "$tsc-watch"
    },
    {
      "taskName": "build",
      "command": "gulp",
      "args": ["build"],
      "isShellCommand": true
    }
  ]
}

Commands per task

You can now define different commands per task (#981). This allows running different commands for different tasks without writing your own shell script. A tasks.json file using commands per task looks like [the above.]