NPM Task Viewer Widget

[christian-bromann]

Discovering a new project can be challenging, especially if the project specific tasks are unknown. We can help expose these NPM tasks by offering a widget that allows to add descriptions and titles to an NPM task to help developers better understand what they do and when to use that NPM task.

Requirements:

• by default show an empty list with a "Call to Action" to add a project script
• when adding a project script a modal is shown that requires title, description and shell command script (multiline script)
• read defined NPM scripts from package.json and offer to add them to the list

[christian-bromann]

We should leverage the VSCode task schema for defining them and the widgets basically reads and displays them.

[christian-bromann]

Also we should add this as a new section into the tree viewer.

[sourishkrout]

We should leverage the VSCode task schema for defining them and the widgets basically reads and displays them. Also we should add this as a new section into the tree viewer.

I like those two requirements, @christian-bromann. So in essence this is widget is actually a generic VS Code task runner showcased based on NPM scripts/tasks?

[christian-bromann]

Also we should add this as a new section into the tree viewer.

I kind changed my mind on this one because tree viewer sections need to be defined within package.json and therefor show up also in non NPM projects.

[sourishkrout]

Also we should add this as a new section into the tree viewer.

I kind changed my mind on this one because tree viewer sections need to be defined within package.json and therefor show up also in non NPM projects.

Not sure I understand. If a tasks.json is defined the treeviewer could be totally agnostic from what context project is loaded, no?

[christian-bromann]

If a tasks.json is defined the treeviewer could be totally agnostic from what context project is loaded, no?

Yeah. If a task.json is defined.