Is it possible to a stop watch task?

[aflanagan]

I'm new to vscode, but I use a lot of npm scripts in my projects and this is a great plugin!

I'm having trouble with one thing though -- I have a couple of watch type tasks (e.g. using watchify). I'm having trouble killing those tasks through vscode. Selecting Tasks: Terminate Running Task doesn't seem to kill any npm script I start using this plugin. Is there another way to end these tasks?

[egamma]

Selecting Tasks: Terminate Running Task doesn't seem to kill any npm script I start using this plugin.

This action only apply to process that were started as tasks https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks.

In the insiders build we have added support for creating tasks from an npm package.json https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/latest.md#tasks

You can give it a try from our insiders build today: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[aflanagan]

Oh, fantastic! I'll give that a try.

[texastoland]

I switched over but is there any way for the plugin to start real tasks?

[egamma]

@AppShipIt you switched over from what? What is an example of a real task?

[texastoland]

For npm start I switched from using this extension to the npm tasks template in the Insiders build. I wondered whether there's any API to register a terminable task in code though.

[texastoland]

Fixed by #13.