Grunt dependencies and tasks for running a php and livereload server in a project.

Gruntfile.js

/**
 * Tasks for running the php dev server and livereload server
 * 
 */
module.exports = function(grunt){

    grunt.initConfig({

        pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

        open:{
            dev:{
                path:'http://localhost:9000'
            }
        },


        shell:{

            /**
             * Provides and easy server for development.
             */
            server:{
                command: 'php -S localhost:9000'

            },

            /**
             * Uses the node implementation of livereload for refreshing the browser.
             */
            livereload:{

                //Only look for changes in the newly regenerated blog in the public folder
                command: 'livereloadx .'
            }

        }
    });


    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');

    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-open');

    grunt.registerTask('server',['open:dev','shell:server']);

    grunt.registerTask('watch',['shell:livereload']);


};

package.json

{
    "name": "package-name",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "description": "insert description",
    "main": "index.js",
    "scripts": {
        "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
    },

    "author": "Carlos E. Reynosa",
    "license": "BSD-2-Clause",


    "devDependencies": {
        "grunt": "~0.4.5",

//For running shell tasks
        "grunt-shell": "~0.7.0",

//for starting livereload server
        "livereloadx": "~0.3.4",

        "grunt-cli": "~0.1.13",
       "grunt-open": "~0.2.3"
    }
}