grunt-devserver

Developer Web Server

grunt-devserver provides a simple way to quickly get a http development server serving up your content with

• no caching content
• CORS headers for cross-domain requests
• logs requests to console
• run from command line or Grunt 0.4.x

As a developer I needed a lightweight way to serve up client-side applications and content in isolation from a larger server application. Something that supported a rapid workflow and integrated with my tools.

Installation

Install it from the command line

npm install grunt-devserver --save-dev

Or add it to your package.json devDependicies

"devDependencies": {
    "grunt-devserver": "*"
}

Usage

From the Command Line

-p, --port (port number) listen on this port
-f, --folder (full path to a folder) serves this folder
--cache (method) the method to return in the Cache-Control HTTP header. Default is no-cache.

From Grunt 0.4.x

In your GruntFile.js file add this to your grunt configuration:

devserver : { 'port' : <port number> (defaults to 8888)
            , 'base' : <directory> (defaults to .)
            , 'cache' : <string> (defaults to 'no-cache')
            }

Load the devserver task:

grunt.loadNpmTasks(grunt-devserver)

and execute using:

grunt devserver

From Yeoman 1.0

Yeoman automatically loads all node_modules prefixed with "grunt" as grunt tasks. Just install grunt-devserver and you're ready to go

grunt devserver

Future

• globally install & grunt-devserver-cli
• serve up multiple folders
• proxy service

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