grunt-deployd

Start and run deployd.com API server while your Grunt task is running.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

npm install grunt-deployd --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-deployd');

The "deployd" task

Overview

• Your deployd server will start on the port that you specify in options.port property.
• You have to specify options.db.name for your database, otherwise Grunt won't know what database should be used.

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  deployd: {
     dev: {
        options: {
          port: 7777,
          db: {
            host: 'localhost',
            port: 27017,
            name: 'development'
          },
          env: 'development'
        }
      },
      prod: {
        options: {
          port: 7777,
          db: {
            port: 27017,
            name: 'production',
            host: 'localhost',
            credentials: {
              username: 'prod_user',
              password: 'prod_pass'
            }
          },
          env: 'production'
        }
      } },
})

You have to add deployd:dev or deployd:prod to your task runner

grunt.task.run( [
        'deployd:dev',
        'configureProxies:server',
        'connect:server',
        'qunit'
      ] );

Accessing API Endpoints

By default, this package will run your API endpoint on the port that you specified in options.port. This is not very pretty when your app runs on a different port. You end up having you app on port 9000 ( or 80 ) and your API endpoints on port 7777.

To make your API endpoints accessible on the same port, you can use an HTTP Proxy. I included an example of how to use grunt-connect-proxy to proxy your API to /api directory on same port as the connect server.

Look in Gruntfile.js for an example of running a deployd server with a proxy

Running tests

• This package includes Gruntfile.js that allows you to run tests of this package

Installation of tests

To install the tests, run # npm install

Running in browser

To run tests in the browser, run # grunt test:dev

Running headless

To run headless tests, run # grunt

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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