Visual Studio Code: running preLaunchTask with multiple tasks

Here is something that will work. Basically you make another task in which you include all the other tasks that you want to run on your preLaunchTask with the dependsOn keyword.

Code for reference:

    "tasks": [
    {
        "label": "CleanUp_Client",
        "type": "shell",
        "command": "rm",
        "args": [
            "-f",
            "Client"
        ]
    },
    {
        "label": "Client_Build",
        "type": "shell",
        "command": "g++",
        "args": [
            "-g",
            "client.cpp",
            "-o",
            "Client",
            "-lssl",
            "-lcrypto"
        ],
        "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
        },
        "problemMatcher": "$gcc"
    },
    {
        "label": "Build",
        "dependsOn": [
            "CleanUp_Client",
            "Client_Build"
        ]
    }
]

In this case you would set your preLaunchTask to “Build” and it will run both tasks.

I am curious if anybody else knows an alternative or the correct syntax to just run several tasks from the launch.json preLaunchTask