grunt watch task block the command line

Question

I\'m new to grunt, still learning, so I came up to a very strange problem. When I run \"watch\" task, my command line becomes blocked, so basically I cant do anythi

Answer 1

Besides terminal only solutions proposed by @Nick, it would good to have better integrated Node solutions.

This had a WONTFIX from grunt-contib-watch https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch/issues/340 and grung-bg-shell https://github.com/rma4ok/grunt-bg-shell/issues/14.

Suggested alternatives were:

• https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-forever
• https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-nodemon