Before launch, run external tool asynchronously?

Question

Is it possible to create run configurations where it doesn't wait for the external tool to exit before launching?

I'm currently trying to get Dart's pub serve to run on my project directory before opening the Dartium browser on localhost:8080 but it seems that it's just waiting for pub to exit before it does. Which won't happen as pub serve continues to show output from the local server.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Probably not the best answer, but this should work:

Create a wrapper script, say pub_async.bat, that asynchronously calls pub.bat with correct command line arguments and returns immediately.

You may lose the ability to "stop" the process, and so shutting down / cleaning up may need to be handled in a different way.