How to run several tasks in VSCode

Question

I am trying to migrate to VSCode and having a problem with setting-up tasks. It is easy to define tasks in tasks.json but I would like to run several tasks simultaneously (which I can't).

Here is my use-case: I have two watchers in my project (one for gulp and another one for webpack). Plus I want to be able to run webpack task separately. When I run one of the watchers I cannot run anything else - VSCode requires me to terminate the running task at first.

In Visual Studio I used Task Runner where several tasks were running simultaneously. Is it possible to achieve the same in VSCode?

Answer 1

Using compound tasks, you can specify dependsOn and dependsOrder on a separate task, and run them in parallel like this:

{
  "label": "start-tasks",
  "dependsOrder": "parallel",
  "dependsOn": [
      "taskOne",
      "taskTwo"
  ]
}