user_task_helpers v1.0.3

User Tasks Helper

This is an embryonic beta project.

The goal is to make a library of Visual Studio code Tasks automate jobs tasks, like linting, building, packaging, testing, or deploying, inside and outside the inner software development loop (edit, compile, test, and debug).

Installation

User|Workspace Tasks

npm install -g user_task_helpers

Link a global task to tasks this

{
  // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
  // for the documentation about the tasks.json format

// <RELATIVE-PATH-TO> : Point task command to global package install.
// TODO: convert to script

  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {...}
    {
      "label": "beta-syntax-generator",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "node --trace-warnings ../../<RELATIVE-PATH-TO-GLOBAL>/node_modules/user_task_helpers/beta-syntax-generator.js
 ${fileWorkspaceFolder} $(git -C ${fileWorkspaceFolder} rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "focus": true,
        "clear": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": ["$tsc"]
    },
    {...}
  ]
}

Documentation

• Check out the VS Code documentation: Integrate with External Tools via Tasks.
• Schema for tasks.json: Appendix

Contributing Guide

Tasks scope

• Be generic enough to be defined at User|Workspace|Project level.
• Run scripts in user_task_helpers/package.json and pass arguments.
• Engage in descriptive and interactive menus.
• Link to Task specific usage documentation.
• Affect only tracked files (git) and can be reverted.
• Process state should be terminated when task is finished or rerunned.
• Use verbose logs and debug output.

🏗 You can improve it by sending pull requests to this repository.