From b35f2df597ae7da9c87c68b4b72eefcb6b3b8dfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sridhar Ratnakumar <srid@srid.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:35:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add run script, and VSCode build task

---
 .vscode/tasks.json | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md          |  2 ++
 bin/run            |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .vscode/tasks.json
 create mode 100755 bin/run

diff --git a/.vscode/tasks.json b/.vscode/tasks.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92c2e54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/tasks.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
+    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
+    "version": "2.0.0",
+    "tasks": [
+        {
+            "label": "cargo watch",
+            "type": "shell",
+            "command": "bin/run",
+            "args": [],
+            "problemMatcher": [],
+            "group": {
+                "kind": "build",
+                "isDefault": true
+            },
+            "runOptions": {
+                "runOn": "folderOpen"
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6a9b266..18290be 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,3 +37,5 @@ nix-shell --run 'cargo run'
 # build
 nix-build
 ```
+
+There is a also a `bin/run` script which starts 'cargo watch'; and it is used by VSCode as well (`Ctrl+Shift+B`).
diff --git a/bin/run b/bin/run
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a227217
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/run
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -xe
+exec nix-shell --run 'cargo watch -x run'