Nodemon-like task in Grunt : execute node process and watch

Question

I feel like I\'m missing something.

Here is what I want to achieve :

Having a grunt task that executes my server.js and runs watch task

Answer 1

Use grunt-concurrent

The issue is that tasks like watch and nodemon will never terminate, so grunt will never reach them. You need to spawn a new process.

You can do this easily using grunt-concurrent:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-concurrent

For example:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({

    ...

    concurrent: {
      dev: {
        tasks: ['nodemon', 'watch'],
        options: {
          logConcurrentOutput: true
        }
      }
    }
  });
};

The two will now run happily side by side.