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grunt-bg-shell

Better shell commands for grunt. Background/parallel run

If you want to run compass watch, coffee --watch --output lib/ src/ and forever server.js at the same time.

Install

$ npm i grunt-bg-shell --save-dev

Using

module.exports = function (grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({
    bgShell: {
      _defaults: {
        bg: true
      },
      
      watchCompass: {
        cmd: 'compass watch'
      },
      watchCoffee: {
        cmd: 'coffee --watch --output lib/ src/'
      },
      runNode: {
        cmd: 'node server.js',
        bg: false
      }
    }
  });
  
  
  grunt.registerTask('default', 'bgShell:watchCompass bgShell:watchCoffee bgShell:runNode');
};

Important!

In example above all shell commands go to background. But not the last one. We tell grunt to run till bgShell:runNode runs

Options

bgShell: {
  lsTasks: {
    cmd: 'ls -la',
    execOpts: {
      cwd: './tasks'
    },
    stdout: true,
    stderr: true,
    bg: false,
    fail: false,
    done: function(){}
  }     
}

cmd: command to execute
execOpts: options for child_process.exec
stdout: true, false or function(out){}
stderr: true, false or function(err){}
bg: background execution
fail: fail grunt on error
done: callback after execution function(err, stdout, stderr){}

Override defaults

bgShell: {
  _defaults: {
    execOpts: null,
    stdout: true,
    stderr: true,
    bg: false,
    fail: false,
    done: function (err, stdout, stderr) {
    }
  },
}

Developing

You need to install grunt globally:

$ npm i -g grunt

Watch coffee:

$ grunt