PluginStatsTask Runner installs statistics
By Sana Ajani · VS Code Marketplace · Other
VS Code extension to view and run tasks from Explorer pane
Task Runner has 122,378 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #2115 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 5.00 / 5 from 7 ratings
About Task Runner
Task Runner
There are many tools that exist to automate parts of your project, including for installing dependencies, building, testing, linting, deploying. This extension adds an additional "Task Runner" view in your Explorer Pane to visualize and individually run the auto-detected tasks in your project. VS Code auto-detects the following task runners: Gulp, Grunt, Jake and npm.
Demo
Running the extension
1. Open this example in VS Code 2. Task Runner view should be shown in Explorer pane on start up 3. Click on a task to execute it
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- execute
- packages
- tasks
Where Task Runner sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (3)Similar VS Code Marketplace Other plugins
Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SanaAjani.taskrunnercode. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.