grunt php dev

Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
	grunt.initConfig({
		shell: {
			bower: {
				options: {
					stdout: true,
				},
				command: 'bower-requirejs -c public_html/js/main.js -e requirejs'
			}
		},
		watch: {
			development: {
				files: ['app/**/*.php', 'public_html/css/*.css', 'public_html/js/**/*.js'],
				options: {
					livereload: true,
				},
			},
			less: {
				files: 'public_html/less/*.less',
				tasks: ['compileLess'],
			},
		},
		less: {
			development: {
				options: {
					paths: ["public_html/less"]
				},
				files: {
					"public_html/css/main.css": "public_html/less/main.less"
				}
			},
		},
		bgShell: {
			_defaults: {
				bg: true
			},
			runPHPServer: {
			    execOpts: {
			      cwd: './public_html'
			    },
				cmd: 'php -S localhost:5000 -t ./ ../server.php',
			},
			runArtisanServer: {
				cmd: 'artisan serve',
			}
		}
	});

	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bg-shell');
	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');
	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-less');

	grunt.registerTask('compileLess', ['less:development']);
	grunt.registerTask('bower', ['shell:bower']);
	grunt.registerTask('default', ['bgShell:runArtisanServer', 'watch']);
}

index.js

/*
    Sometimes git timesout during bower-requirejs; We can fix this by running bower list in offline mode
    file: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower-requirejs/lib/index.js
    #line: 39
    See: https://github.com/yeoman/bower-requirejs/issues/71
*/

  function run() {
    bower.commands.list({}, {
    	offline: true
    })
      .on('end', function (data) {
        if (data) {
          writeConfig(buildPaths(data.dependencies));
        }
      })
      .on('error', function (err) {
        console.error(danger('ERR'), process.argv.slice(2).join(' '), '\n');
        console.error(opts.debug ? err.stack : err.message);
        process.exit(err.code || 1);
      });
  }

package.json

{
  "dependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.2",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
    "grunt-contrib-less": "~0.9.0",
    "grunt-bg-shell": "~2.3.1",
    "bower-requirejs": "~0.9.0",
    "grunt-shell": "~0.6.4"
  }
}

setup.sh

#!/bin/bash

npm install
npm install -g bower-requirejs