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Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux

by Alessandro Del Sole
May 2023
Beginner to intermediate
343 pages
7h 17m
English
Apress
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A. Del SoleVisual Studio Code Distilledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9484-0_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 compiling and testing code by running external tools. In this chapter, you 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 on Chrome’s JavaScript engine, which you can download from https://nodejs.org ...

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