How to run Grunt tasks from within VSCode?

Question

Title says it all. I still use Grunt, though it feels like I should be using Gulp.

Nonetheless, rather than alt-tabbing to a CMD window, I'd like to use the palette or shortcut keys to kick off some Grunt tasks. Reading the docs, it looks like I'd need to write a json task. What??? That's like writing a Grunt task to run a Grunt task.

Has anybody else already written a generic VSCode task for running Grunt?

EDIT: Thanks to the accepted answer, here is what I'm running:

{
    "version": "0.1.0", 
    "command": "grunt",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "tasks": [{
        "taskName": "default"
    },{
        "taskName": "stage"
    },{
        "taskName": "dist"
    }]
}

I open the palette, and see default, stage, dist. Not sure if that's the best way, but it works so far. Definitely room for improvement.

Answer 1

The most recen update to VSC has auto-detects grunt (and gulp tasks) so you can now just use cmd+p then type task (notice the space at the end) and VSC will show you the available tasks to run.

More info at: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks