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How to Run Node js npm & yarn Scripts & Tasks Using Run Button in VSCode IDE
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Jul 12, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this uh video.
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So in this video, I'll show you a VS
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code extension uh which provides you
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with this uh GUI kind of an interface
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where you can run and automate all the
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npm scripts that you have declared or
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tasks
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inside your projects. So this is the
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extension task runner. If you go to the
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extensions tab, just write this name.
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It's fairly new extension. Uh
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so it's got almost 14,000 installed. So
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click on the install button to activate
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this. So once you activate this you will
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see this option appearing at the sidebar
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section. If you see
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so task runner so if you see that
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activate this so now it will show you
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all the extensions all the npm scripts
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that you already have inside your
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package.json JSON file. So
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we have these two scripts here which is
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the start script, the test script.
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So if you go to this,
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you also have the npm install script
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which installed all the npm modules. So
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you can click this install script to
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install all the NodeJS modules and then
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you can run this
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project by clicking this run task
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button. So it will start your
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application very easily. So it makes it
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very much easy. It actually add this
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option right in the sidebar section. So
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at any time in the program if you want
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to run this you go to this location
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simply it adds these run button you
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click the run button it will start this
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script automatically so don't need to
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manually go to the command line run your
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project so it will save you a lot of
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time so simply install this extension
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activate this and start using it and
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