I have written an application in Node.js (with Express & socket.io) and I would like to use Grunt to compile my client-side stuff with livereload while developing and being connected to Node.js application. How can I do this? (Preferably without running Node.js app in another port and client in another port, because of pathing and cross-domain issues)
I installed also Yeoman and it's using out of the box grunt-contrib-livereload package, but from what I understood it's using Node.js Connect server for serving client-side files, thus being separated from my Node.js application..
Example from Gruntfile.js generated by Yeoman:
var lrSnippet = require('grunt-contrib-livereload/lib/utils').livereloadSnippet;
var mountFolder = function (connect, dir) {
return connect.static(require('path').resolve(dir));
};
// ... cut some parts
grunt.initConfig({
watch: {
livereload: {
files: [
'<%= yeoman.app %>/*/*.html',
'{.tmp,<%= yeoman.app %>}/styles/*.css',
'{.tmp,<%= yeoman.app %>}/scripts/*.js',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/images/*.{png,jpg,jpeg}'
],
tasks: ['livereload']
}
// ..cut some parts
},
connect: {
livereload: {
options: {
port: 9000,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
lrSnippet,
mountFolder(connect, '.tmp'),
mountFolder(connect, 'app')
];
}
}
}
}
// ..cut some parts
});
grunt.registerTask('server', [
'clean:server',
'coffee:dist',
'compass:server',
'livereload-start',
'connect:livereload',
'open',
'watch'
]);