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How to Add Run Button in Package json File of Node js Project in VSCode IDE to Run Scripts
Jul 12, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS code
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extension which directly allows you to
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execute all the packaged JSON scripts
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with a single click. So go to the
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extensions tab and just search for this
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extension which is npm run. So this
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extension will come. It's a fairly new
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extension. 5,000 installs are there. So
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simply click the install button. So what
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this is it will do. So if you have an
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existing package dojson file and if you
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have declared some of the scripts here,
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it will just add a run button right in
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this file itself. So after activating
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this extension, you will see this run
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button available. Click the install
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button. Uh just activate this extension.
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So after you open package.json file, you
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will see this run button appearing
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uh alongside with each script here.
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Click the run button. It will
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automatically start your
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you can see it is executing the script
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here automatically in the terminal. So
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you don't need to do manually go to that
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command line. Just type npm run start.
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It will do automating thing for you. You
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can just run the test script as well. So
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you can see that how easy it is. So it
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basically prints out this.
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just put this run button right in the
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package JSON file itself. So you can
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have multiple scripts mentioned right
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here and for each script there will be
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the run button. So this is the extension
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of VS code definitely install it and
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this it will automate all your package
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JSON scripts with a single click.
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