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How to Run & Execute Any Node js npm Tasks & Scripts Automatically in VSCode IDE
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 yet another
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VS code extension which allows you to
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run different task or scripts declared
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inside your
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projects. It can be npm scripts, yan
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scripts, any package manager scripts. So
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if you go to the extensions tab, just
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try task runner and this extension will
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come right here. It's a fairly popular
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extension having 92,000 installs. So
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simply ex uh activate this extension and
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after activating it, it will show you
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the list of different types of scripts
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and tasks that you have declared inside
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your project in the sidebar section.
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So if you go to the you will see this
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will add this section in the explorer
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window right at the bottom section
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corner once you activate this. So now
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inside this here it will show you all
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the scripts that you already have inside
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your package.json file. So first script
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here is for running the server.
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So let me just delete everything and
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start from.
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So here it will show you all the uh task
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that you already have. So this one for
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running the server. So it will start as
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soon as you click this it will start the
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server here and here you can
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simply navigate to the server right
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here. And the second one is for building
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the workspace.
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This is a nice little extension which
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shows you all the tasks which are
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already running inside VS code. It shows
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you in this explorer window. Definitely
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install this extension and also check
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out my website free mediatools.com uh
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which contains thousands of tools.
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