Trying to run a gulp task with VSCode which is not based in the root folder

Question

This is my task.json

// A task runner configuration for gulp. Gulp provides a less task // which compiles less to css.  {     "version": "0.1.0",     "command": "gulp",     "isShellCommand": true,     "tasks": [         {             "taskName": "sfdcBuild",             // Make this the default build command.             "isBuildCommand": true,             // Show the output window only if unrecognized errors occur.             "showOutput": "always",             // Use the standard less compilation problem matcher.             "problemMatcher": "$lessCompile"         }     ] } 

Unfortunately my gulp installation (the local one) is not under root but inside another folder:

root/js/ 

so how can I define that I would like to run this gulp command from inside the other folder?

PS: moving the task.json into the subfolder did nor work.

Answer 1

Using a different working directory is partly supported. It doesn't work for auto detection of gulp tasks but it should work for running gulp. You can add something like this to the tasks.json in the top level scope

"options": {     "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}/mySubDir" }, 

However this still assumes that gulp and all node modules guld requires are accessible from that directory.

Answer 2

The tasks.json doesn't support at this time launching a task with a different cwd. One way to workaround it would be to create a gulp.cmd or gulp.sh file in your workspace's root folder that invokes the correct gulp. E.g. gulp.cmd:

@SETLOCAL @SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;% node  "%~dp0\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js" %* 

To avoid committing this to your git repository, you could ignore it in .git/info/exclude