Grunt with Compass and Watch compiles slow

Question

Grunt takes a quite long to compile the css file, I am not sure if this is normal but regular compass watch takes around 5 seconds.

So the question is if there is any w

Answer 1

Along with what Simon mentioned about the watch option of grunt-contrib-compass, you can use grunt-concurrent to run two processes, effectively grunt watch and compass watch, alongside each other:

concurrent: {
    watch: {
        tasks: ['watch', 'compass:watch'],
        options: {
            logConcurrentOutput: true
        }
    }
},
compass: {
    watch: {
        options: {
            watch: true
        }
    }
}

If you want to run compass from Grunt when building, deploying, or anything else that requires compile instead of watch, you'll need to make a second compass task and use that:

compass: {
    // Compass grunt module requires a named target property with options.
    compile: {
        options: {}
    }
}