First run

Now that we've set everything up, it's time to take a look at where we're doing. The first thing we should do is to turn our task runner on:

  1. Expand the root node, right-click to the default task, and hit Run.
  2. From the Solution Explorer, right-click on your gulpfile.js file and select Task Runner Explorer.
  3. If you did everything correctly, the Task Runner will silently execute its tasks, keeping the one named watch active in background.

    First run

  4. Right after that we can hit F5 (or left-click the Start Debugging button) and test our still rather minimalistic, yet fully functional, home screen.

If things are working as they should, we will see something ...

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