grunt-deserve

Local development server based on connect/express with reload task, build using tiny-lr for grunt

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-deserve --save-dev

One the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-deserve');

The "deserve" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named deserve to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  deserve: {
    default: {
      options: {
        base: './public',
        port: 8080,
        hostname: 'localhost'
      }
    }
  },
  deserve_reload: {
    default: {}
  }
})

Options

options.base

Type: String Default value: .

Path to serve static files

options.port

Type: Number Default value: 8000

options.hostname

Type: String Default value: 'localhost'

options.tinyport

Type: Number Default value: 35729

Port for tinylr

options.keepalive

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Keep server up indefinetly

options.dev

Type: String Default value: true

Log dev info

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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