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Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition
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Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

by Nathan Rozentals
February 2019
Beginner
694 pages
18h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a tasks.json file

VSCode uses a special tasks.json file in order to run commonly used tasks that you may need in your development life cycle. Obviously, one of the most common tasks you will need to run is the compilation step, otherwise known as the build step. The keyboard shortcut to build a project in VSCode is Ctrl+Shift+B.

In order to run a build step with Ctrl+Shift+B, we will need to create a tasks.json file, and configure it correctly to run the tsc command to build our project. If you do not already have a tsconfig.json file for your project, then go ahead and create one from the command line by typing the following:

tsc --init

Once we have a tsconfig.json file for our project, we can configure the default build task. ...

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