Tasks

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With this command you can execute a single tasks or tasks for a specific step.

Execute all tasks of a specific group

For example these are the tasks that are defined in our webdev.yml

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tasks:
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  example1:
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    name: Example 1
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    init:
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    - echo "Example 1 Init"
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    create:
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    - echo "Example 1 create"
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  example2:
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    name: Example 2
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    init:
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    - echo "Example 2 Init"
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    create:
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    - echo "Example 2 create"
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  example3:
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    name: Example 3
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    init:
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    - echo "Example 3 Init"
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    start:
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    - echo "Example 3 start"

When you execute the command webdev tasks start, only the example3 commands under start are executed and we would see as output “Example 3 start” in the console.

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  "initializeCommand": "... && webdev tasks init --no-header",
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  "postStartCommand": "... && webdev tasks start --no-header",
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  "postCreateCommand": "... && webdev tasks create --no-header",

The groups init, create and start are usually called when the devcontainer is starting and so on. As we can see from the example above, which shows the commands from the devcontainer.json.

Execute one tasks of a specific group

If we take the same example as above, then we can execute with webdev task example3 --start the commands defined under example3 => start would be executed. If we want to execute the command echo "Example 3 Init" then we would need to change the command to webdev task example3 --init. The options are --init, --start and --create. All three options can also be used together.