grunt-freeport

Grunt task to get a free port number on localhost from specified range. Uses node-portscanner.

Install

$ npm i -S grunt-freeport

Usage

grunt.initConfig({
    freeport: {
        sometask: {
            options: {
                start: 8080,
                end: 8089
            }
        }
    },
    sometask: {
        options: {
            port: '<%= freeport.sometask %>'
        }
    }
});

// common, start using `load-grunt-tasks`
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-freeport');

grunt.registerTask('default', [ 'freeport:sometask', 'sometask' ]);

Options

• start – start point to find a free port, must be >= 1, 1 by default
• end – end point to find a free port, must be <= 65535, 65535 by default

If task target is omitted then it will use default variable name freeport, i.e. you should use '<%= freeport %>'.

License

WTFPL