It would be nice to have the browser automatically reload the page when I change a project file. I have this node-express site with the server being defined in 'server.js'
However, I've tried different grunt configurations, but none of them caused the browser to reload on a file change although the 'watch' task prints a message that the file changed!
Here is the relevant grunt configuration:
watch: {
all: {
files: 'views/index.ejs', // for now only watch this file!
options: {
livereload: true
}
}
},
express: {
options: {
background: true,
error: function(err, result, code) {},
fallback: function() {},
port: 3000
delay: 0,
output: ".+",
debug: false
},
dev: {
options: {
script: './server.js',
node_env: 'development',
livereload: true
}
}
}
....
grunt.registerTask('server', [
'express:dev',
'open',
'watch'
])
};
And to run the task I do
$> grunt server
Can someone explain what is wrong with this configuration ?
thnx
You need to install the livereload browser plugin from http://livereload.com/