Boot productivity with VScode Tasks.

For project level custom tasks, open .vscode/tasks.json . These tasks are only available in current project.

For user custom tasks, go to command palette (F1), type user tasks . These tasks are available across projects.

This is a common workflow i do daily, so i can’t stand to use mouse to click. Goto tasks.json . The following task defins a simple task that quickly switch to main

I like to prefix my git branches with whou/1016/ , that is my username and the month and date. This way i can quickly organize my branch and never run out of one time branch names such as quickfix bugfix .

Go to your tasks.json , i choose the user level one.

here i define custom task backed by a shell command:

Invoking this by hitting F1 and type run tasks , then pick the Create Branch, which will prompt you for a branch base, prefix it with username and month/date, then create it in a terminal.

Once you are done coding, you need to create PR. VScode GIT extension requires multiple clicks: open git view, open branches, find the right branch, click the create pull request icon.

Thankfully you can go to https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/pull/<branch-name> and lands in a pull request view or create pull request view.

The following task opens the URL in browser:

Since the tasks can be powered by shell command, the potential is unlimited. You can even write python scripts and invoke it with python... .

Custom tasks fills the gap of quick customization of my IDE, like what i used to do a lot in my emacs.

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