grunt restart watch

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Meanwhile, a workaround is to restart watch when Gruntfile.js is modified. Here is a quick hack to do it.

Set the "nospawn" option of watch to true.

Add the following task in your Gruntfile.js:

grunt.registerTask('exit', 'Just exits.', function() {
    process.exit(0);
});
Put this as a target of your watch:

watch: {
    config: {
        files: ['package.json', 'gruntfile.js'],
        tasks: ['exit']
    }
}
And finally you run this in your terminal:

while true; do grunt watch; echo -e "\nRESTART"; done
Note: you will need to close your terminal to stop watch. (Or do a ctrl-z followed by kill %1)