marcusmolchany/node-express-grunt-starter

node-express-grunt-starter

This repository is a starting point for any node/express project. Grunt.js is also included with a set of common grunt tasks.

Requirements

• npm
• node
• express
• jade
• grunt

Getting Started

Clone the repository and npm install

$ git clone https://github.com/marcusmolchany/node-express-grunt-starter
$ cd node-express-grunt-starter
$ npm install

Run the Server

$ npm start

Development with Grunt

To run the default grunt tasks type

$ grunt

This will run everything in the default task array in Gruntfile.js, and then stop

  grunt.registerTask('default', [
    'jshint',
    'csslint',
    'concat',
    'uglify',
    'cssmin'
  ]);

If you want to have these tasks execute everytime you save a change run the watch task in a separate terminal window

$ grunt watchTask

This task will hang until you ctrl-c. It will run the same list of tasks in the default array.