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Gruntfile configuring grunt-express and grunt-open to serve your projects file and open a browser, as a first step in my Grunt and livereload tutorial : http://rhumaric.com/2013/07/renewing-the-g…vereload-magic/
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// Gruntfile with the configuration of grunt-express and grunt-open. No livereload yet! | |
module.exports = function(grunt) { | |
// Load Grunt tasks declared in the package.json file | |
require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks); | |
// Configure Grunt | |
grunt.initConfig({ | |
// grunt-express will serve the files from the folders listed in `bases` | |
// on specified `port` and `hostname` | |
express: { | |
all: { | |
options: { | |
port: 9000, | |
hostname: "0.0.0.0", | |
bases: [__dirname] // Replace with the directory you want the files served from | |
// Make sure you don't use `.` or `..` in the path as Express | |
// is likely to return 403 Forbidden responses if you do | |
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14594121/express-res-sendfile-throwing-forbidden-error | |
} | |
} | |
}, | |
// grunt-open will open your browser at the project's URL | |
open: { | |
all: { | |
// Gets the port from the connect configuration | |
path: 'http://localhost:<%= express.all.options.port%>' | |
} | |
} | |
}); | |
// Creates the `server` task | |
grunt.registerTask('server', [ | |
'express', | |
'open', | |
'express-keepalive' | |
]); | |
}; |
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