VSCode 1.14 and tasks

I recently started a new Electron Typescript project using version 1.14 of VSCode. Getting the task runner up and running using CTRL+B did not initially work, due to the fact that tasks.json is auto-generated as version 2.0.0 compared to version 0.1.0 which was the default in VSCode 1.13.

In addition, the new VSCode supports task auto-detection which confused the hell out of me due to it detecting tsconfig.json and asking me if I wanted to compile some typescript, even though my Tasks.json file was not yet created.

Apparently, MS added task-auto detection to the mainline during my vacation rendering tasks.json as an optionel part of a VSCode project. tasks.json is still required if one wish to create custom tasks or scan and parse the auto-detected tasks shell output.

This feature is great! since now I can make all my tasks in NPM without having to re-define them in tasks.json. VSCode can now detect these tasks automagically.

Although I still have to add the tasks in tasks.json if I want to define the default task addition to allowing VSCode to scan for problems.