'dependsOn' task is launching tasks with 'taskName' as command line parameters

[TheColorRed]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.14.2 (cb82feb, 2017-07-19T23:26:08.116Z)
• OS Version: Linux x64 4.10.0-26-generic

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I have a tasks.json that has a dependsOn in it, and when I run my default task ctrl+b it starts the task. However, it launches the dependents incorrectly.

Instead of running

tsc -w -p /src/typescript/client
tsc -w -p /src/typescript/server

It is running the following where build client and build server are my dependency task names.

tsc build client -w -p /src/typescript/client
tsc build server -w -p /src/typescript/server

{
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "command": "tsc",
  "problemMatcher": "$tsc",
  "isBackground": false,
  "type": "process",
  "echoCommand": true,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "taskName": "build",
      "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "dependsOn": [
        "build client",
        "build server"
      ]
    },
    {
      "taskName": "build client",
      "args": [
        "-w",
        "-p",
        "${workspaceRoot}/src/typescript/client"
      ]
    },
    {
      "taskName": "build server",
      "args": [
        "-w",
        "-p",
        "${workspaceRoot}/src/typescript/server"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

[Lixire]

I think the format of tasks.json that you want is this:

{
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "taskName": "build",
      "command": "tsc",
      "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "dependsOn": [
        "build client",
        "build server"
      ]
    },
    {
      "taskName": "build client",
      "command": "tsc",
      "args": [
        "-w",
        "-p",
        "${workspaceRoot}/src/typescript/client"
      ]
    },
    {
      "taskName": "build server",
      "command": "tsc",
      "args": [
        "-w",
        "-p",
        "${workspaceRoot}/src/typescript/server"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Did that fix your problem?

[TheColorRed]

Yeah that works.