grunt-services

Start and Stop database services

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-services --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-services');

The Tasks

All tasks are plain tasks, which means you have to include them in grunt.registerTask() statements or call them directly from command line. The available tasks are:

• startRedis Start Redis database.
• startMongo Start Mongodb database.
• startPostgres Start Postgres database.
• stopRedis Stop Redis database.
• stopMongo Stop Mongodb database.
• stopPostgres Stop Postgres database.

Sample Setup

Create start and stop aliases for starting and stoping the services:

grunt.initConfig({ /* ... */ });

grunt.registerTask('start', 'Start all required services', ['startRedis', 'startMongo']);
grunt.registerTask('stop', 'Stop all services', ['stopRedis', 'stopMongo']);

Release History

• v0.1.0, 16 Apr 2015
  • Fixed redis shutdown, thank you @itsjustcon.
• v0.0.3, 21 Nov 2014
  • Changed the way Mongo is shutdown, instead of a brutal kill we now use the suggested by mongodb way, thank you @victorsand.
• v0.0.2, 25 Apr 2014
  • Fix for linux environments, thankyou @bryanlester.
• v0.0.1, 15 Feb 2014
  • Big Bang

License

Copyright ©2015 Thanasis Polychronakis. Licensed under the MIT license.