Automatically Execute Commands on Save in VS Code

[nelsonic]

Tasks: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks

tl;dr

I needed to enable markdown formatting on save using remark: https://github.com/remarkjs/vscode-remark

This post looked good but it requires installing another plugin ...
https://medium.com/better-programming/automatically-execute-bash-commands-on-save-in-vs-code-7a3100449f63
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=emeraldwalk.RunOnSave
I prefer the stock approach even if it's a couple of extra steps.

[nelsonic]

Just been informed by VSCode that:

"Your Code installation appears to be corrupt. Please reinstall."

🤷‍♂️