In IntelliJ IDEA there is such a concept as a “maven goal”.

These are able to be run “before launch”, meaning before running the main class configuration in question.

When I look at Visual Studio’s support for launch configuration options, I see no such option for adding maven goals, or any pre-launch command options at all. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-debugging#_configuration-options

Is this a feature Visual Studio code does or will support in the future? And if so, how do I do it? At the end of the day I just need multiple other maven projects to be installed before running the specific maven project in question.

IntelliJ only needs the path to the other maven project, and the maven command to run (e.g. install), so hopefully Visual Studio Code has some similar feature.