A simple example of launching two long-running processes within Visual Studio Code to make working in monorepo easier

tasks.json

{
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "label": "Start Expo dev server",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "cd ./apps/mobile && yarn start",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "new",
        "group": "develop",
      },
      "runOptions": { "runOn": "folderOpen" },
    },
    {
      "label": "Start Vercel dev server",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "cd ./apps/backend && yarn vercel dev",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "new",
        "group": "develop",
      },
      "runOptions": { "runOn": "folderOpen" }
    }
  ]
}