Visual Studio Code tasks.json for Lua projects (busted + luacheck)

tasks.json

// Available variables which can be used inside of strings.
// ${workspaceRoot}: the root folder of the team
// ${file}: the current opened file
// ${fileBasename}: the current opened file's basename
// ${fileDirname}: the current opened file's dirname
// ${fileExtname}: the current opened file's extension
// ${cwd}: the current working directory of the spawned process

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "sh",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "test",
            "showOutput": "always",
            "args": [ "/usr/local/bin/busted", "${workspaceRoot}" ]
        },
        {
            "taskName": "lint",
            "args": [ "/usr/local/bin/luacheck", "${workspaceRoot}", "--formatter", "plain" ],
            "problemMatcher": {
                "owner": "lua",
                "fileLocation": ["absolute"],
                "pattern": {
                    "regexp": "^(.*):(\\d+):(\\d+): (.*)$",
                    "file": 1,
                    "line": 2,
                    "column": 3,
                    "message": 4
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}