✨ Tasks (Run scripts in the shell)

[Angelk90]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Registrazione.schermo.2022-03-26.alle.09.30.34.mov

You know that XCode has a menu like this, which allows you to run tests and other things as well as run the program.

It would be useful to have something like this, but which allows you to run scripts found in the package.json file.

Script package.json example:

"scripts": {
    "typescript": "tsc --noEmit",
    "lint": "eslint \"**/*.{js,ts,tsx}\"",
    "lint-ci": "yarn lint -f ./node_modules/@firmnav/eslint-github-actions-formatter/dist/formatter.js",
    "build": "bob build",
    "release": "release-it",
    "pods": "cd example && yarn pods",
    "bootstrap": "yarn && cd example && yarn && yarn setup && yarn pods",
    "check-android": "scripts/ktlint.sh && scripts/cpplint.sh",
    "check-ios": "scripts/swiftformat.sh && scripts/swiftlint.sh",
    "check-js": "yarn lint --fix && yarn typescript",
    "check-all": "scripts/check-all.sh",
    "clean-ios": "scripts/clean-ios.sh",
    "clean-android": "scripts/clean-android.sh",
    "clean-js": "scripts/clean-js.sh",
    "docs": "cd docs && yarn build"
  }

Describe the solution you'd like
So if the project contains a package.json file it tries to read it, if it finds any scripts, it puts them in the menu to let you run them.
When one of the scripts is pressed, it starts the script in a new shell.

[pkasila]

@jasonplatts, I think that it's related to #76

[Angelk90]

@pkasila : I don't know, do you think such a thing could be useful?
Do you see it more as a plugin?

[lukepistrol]

My take on this is that we should enable it in our plugin API so plugin developers can choose what action they want to perform on "play". Similar to how VSCode handles it.

[pkasila]

As @lukepistrol said, we implement API for extensions to provide targets, tests and so on. So, NodeJS extension reads package.json and creates npm start target and anything else using Extension API and these targets appear in the UI

[jasonplatts]

Yeah, I agree. It seems like it might be better as an extension. Nova offers tasks, https://docs.nova.app/extensions/run-configurations/.

[jasonplatts]

As @lukepistrol said, we implement API for extensions to provide targets, tests and so on. So, NodeJS extension reads package.json and creates npm start target and anything else using Extension API and these targets appear in the UI

Here is the link to VS Code tasks. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks

[jasonplatts]

Overview

The Task Provider should allow extension developers to define external tools that can be run from a CodeEdit menu option and the command palette. These tasks should be capable of running command line tools, such as Grunt, npm, Rake, Gulp, etc. Results from running these tasks should appear in the console within CodeEdit.

Resources

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/task-provider