I'm new to Node.js and Grunt... I'm attempting to use Node.js and Grunt on a Windows server to watch my main.less file and do a standard compile and concatinate. I'm able to do this while the command prompt is open, but I need this to run as a daemon while not logged into the server since the .less files get deployed from our CMS that sits in the cloud.
I found promising documentation in Grunt-Forever, but it requires you to point to an application, while I just want to perform the grunt watch task.
Someone else asked a similar question 9 months ago, but nobody gave an answer: Grunt.js Watch Forever
I tried this from the command line:
FWIW, you can do forever /usr/local/bin/grunt --base . watch to use forever with grunt watch atm.
But, I got errors.
Here is my gruntfile:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.registerTask('watch', [ 'watch' ]);
grunt.initConfig({
concat: {
js: {
src: [
'js/global.js','js/googlemap.js'
],
dest: 'js/main.min.js'
},
},
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: false
},
js: {
files: {
'js/main.min.js': ['js/main.min.js']
}
}
},
less: {
style: {
files: {
"css/style.css": "less/main.less"
}
}
},
watch: {
js: {
files: ['js/global.js','js/googlemap.js'],
tasks: ['concat:js', 'uglify:js']
},
css: {
files: ['less/*.less'],
tasks: ['less:style']
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-less');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
};
Any help is much appreciated!
