Task Runner Explorer

A task runner for Grunt and Gulp directly within Visual Studio 2013.

This extension lets you execute any Grunt/Gulp task or target inside Visual Studio by adding a Task Runner Explorer window:

You can also bind any Grunt/Gulp task or target to a Visual Studio event, such as Build and Solution Open. That way you can run certain tasks when you build your project or run Grunt Watch when the solution is opened.

Preview

This is an early preview of the Grunt/Gulp support coming in Visual Studio "14" and we would appreciate any feedback you can offer at this point. The goal is to make support for Grunt/Gulp first-class citizens in Visual Studio, but we need your help getting this as good as humanly possible. Please use the Discussion tab on this page or use Twitter (@mkristensen) to provide the feedback. 

Prerequisites

Make sure to follow these steps in the correct order:

1. Install node.js (it includes npm)
2. In any command line, execute the following command:
     For Grunt: "npm install grunt-cli -g"
     For Gulp:   "npm install gulp -g"

Other extensions

Here's a few related extensions that makes working with Grunt, Gulp, npm and Bower much easier in Visual Studio:

Package Intellisense (Extra Intellisense and tooltips for npm and Bower)

Grunt Launcher (Additional features for Grunt, Gulp, npm and Bower)

Known issues

These are known issues that we plan to solve soon:

1. Only web projects are supported
2. Projects inside nested solution folders aren't supported yet