How to add a post tsc build task that copy files?

Question

How to add another task to VSCode, that copies files from x to y, after the tsc build task?

Answer 1

You can use a task runner like gulp to accomplish this...

You can configure vscode to run the build task below, which is dependent upon the compile task.

var gulp = require('gulp'),
  exec = require('child_process').exec;

gulp.task('build', ['compile'], function () {
  return gulp.src('./config/**/*.json')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});

gulp.task('compile', function (done) {
  exec('tsc -p ./app', function (err, stdOut, stdErr) {
    console.log(stdOut);
    if (err){
      done(err);
    } else {
      done();
    }
  });
});

There is documentation about running gulp tasks via vscode here: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/tasks