grunt-develop
Run a Node.js application for development, with support for auto-reload.
Notes:
- Requires Grunt >= 0.4.1 && Node.js >= 0.10.0
Does not provide a file-watch, grunt-contrib-watch is helpful here- No need to modify/export your server or alter your applications code
Non-blocking (the task completes immediately and the application will un in the background);Run as last taskReloads cleanly the application when the task is called again, allowing for auto-reload.
Contributing
This project has a lot of active contributors and users. Please submit a test along with any changes made. Thanks!
Install
$ npm install grunt-develop
Basic Gruntfile.js Example
module { grunt; grunt; grunt; };
Coffeescript App Example
You may also have develop automatically restart coffeescript based node
applications by using the cmd
option. This option allows the user to
specify which command/executable to use when restarting the server.
= gruntinitConfig develop: server: file: 'app.coffee' cmd: 'coffee' gruntloadNpmTasks 'grunt-develop' gruntregisterTask 'default''develop'
A more complex Gruntfile.js
To support auto-reload on changes, for example:
module { grunt; grunt; grunt; grunt; };
The nospawn
is required to keep the grunt context in which grunt-develop
is running
your application.
Then you can run grunt as the following and get automatic restart of the application on file changes:
$ grunt
You may add any other task in the watch, like JS linting, asset compiling, etc. and customize the watch to your needs. See grunt-contrib-watch.
License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013, Edward Hotchkiss.