Manages tasks in Visual Studio Code in a custom activity view.
Features
List all detected tasks grouped by sources, and by root folders
The task list is automatically refreshed when a common task file is changed (e.g. gulpfile.js)
Run/terminate/restart tasks directly in the custom activity view
View source files for Workspace, npm, and TypeScript tasks
Keep frequently used tasks in a top-level Favorites group
Running tasks are indicated by an animated icon
Total number of running tasks is shown as view badge
Exclude tasks using a regular expression pattern
Automatically collapse large task trees
Configure task sorting
Configuration
taskManager.exclude
Regular expression pattern for excluding tasks by name.
Example:
{
"taskManager.exclude": "^npm:"
}
taskManager.collapseLargeTaskTree
Controls whether the task tree automatically collapses top-level groups when there are more than three groups and more than 30 tasks. Enabled by default.
Example:
{
"taskManager.collapseLargeTaskTree": false
}
taskManager.taskSortOrder
Controls how task items are sorted in the task tree. Favorites always keep their default label and origin sort order.
Available values:
label - Sort tasks alphabetically by label. This is the default.
group - Sort tasks by task group, then alphabetically by label. Built-in groups are ordered as build, test, clean, and rebuild; custom groups are sorted by group id after those.
provider - Keep tasks in the order returned by VS Code task providers. This is useful when a provider returns tasks in a meaningful order, but the exact order depends on VS Code and the provider.
