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When no tasks.json, Run BuildTask gives unhelpful error message #24275

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ramya-rao-a opened this issue Apr 7, 2017 · 1 comment
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When no tasks.json, Run BuildTask gives unhelpful error message #24275

ramya-rao-a opened this issue Apr 7, 2017 · 1 comment
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@ramya-rao-a
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Test tour MERN - #22277

Not really MERN specific

  • VSCode Version: Insiders
  • OS Version: Mac

Steps to Reproduce:

As a new user who stumbled upon tasks, one might get tempted to run Tasks: Run Build Task assuming that VS Code was smart enough to figure out how to build the project.

And they get the below:

screen shot 2017-04-07 at 2 57 03 pm

Instead we should have a message that asks the user to create tasks.json
or
create one for them and ask them to check it before running the build command
or
if their package.json has a "build" script, use that

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chrmarti commented Apr 8, 2017

Tracked with #24146

@chrmarti chrmarti closed this as completed Apr 8, 2017
@chrmarti chrmarti added the *duplicate Issue identified as a duplicate of another issue(s) label Apr 8, 2017
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