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A. Del SoleVisual Studio Code Distilledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6901-5_8

8. Automating Tasks

Alessandro Del Sole1  
(1)
Cremona, Italy
 
As described in previous chapter, Visual Studio Code is more than a simple code editor because it enables you to execute operations such as compilingand testing code by running external tools. In this chapter you will learn how VS Code can execute external programs via tasks, by both existing tasks and customized tasks. To run the examples provided in this chapter, you need the following software:

  • Node.js, a free and open source JavaScript runtime based upon Chrome’s JavaScript engine, which you can download from

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