Running Node app through Grunt

Question

I am trying to run my Node application as a Grunt task. I need to spawn this as a child process, however, to allow me to run the watch task in parallel.

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Answer 1

Take a look at grunt-nodemon which handles a lot of the headaches related to spawning a child process.

Answer 2

This is because grunt-contrib-watch currently spawns all task runs as child processes. So the variable child is not within the same process context. Fairly soon, grunt-contrib-watch@0.3.0 will be released with a nospawn option. This will let you configure the watch to spawn task runs within the same context and would make your above example work.

Take a look at this issue for a little more information:

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch/issues/45