grunt-spawner

Manage spawned processes. Provides a way to start and stop processes within grunt, asynchronously.

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-spawner --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-spawner');

The "spawner" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named spawner to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  spawner: {
    server: {
      command: 'node',
      args: ['--debug', 'server.js']
    },
  },
  watch: {
    source: {
      files: ['src/index.js', 'src/app/**/*.js'],
      tasks: ['spawner:server:stop', 'build', 'spawner:server'],
    },
  },
})

grunt.registerTask('server', ['spawner:server', 'watch']);

Options

Are exactly the same as child_process.spawn(), expect for a quiet flag which will redirect output.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

0.0.3
  * Supports spawning processes and stopping them.
0.0.1
  * Nothing... just grabbing grunt-spawner on npm.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 David Boyer. Licensed under the MIT license.