grunt-jads
Spin up a simple node.js http server enablding alias' and proxying requests. This grunt task is a wrapper to JADS (https://github.com/bocallaghan/JADS).
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-jads --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jads');
The "jads" task
Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named jads
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
.
grunt.initConfig({
jads: {
options: {
// Task-specific options go here.
},
},
});
Options
options.port
Type: String
Default value: '8080'
A string value to specify the server port to listen on.
options.document_root
Type: String
Default value: '.'
A string value to specify the document root of the web server.
options.alias
Type: Object
Default value: nil
An object containing url alias names with a target diretory.
Usage Examples
Default Options
In this example, the default options are used to start a web server on localhost:8080 with content served from the current directory.
grunt.initConfig({
jads: {
options: {
},
},
});
Custom Options
In this example, custom options are used to specify port 8080; the current directory as the document root and a url alias pointing 'sapui5' to a fixed location on the PC.
grunt.initConfig({
jads: {
options: {
port: "8080",
document_root: ".",
alias: {
"sapui5": "C:\\MyScratchFolder\\apache-tomcat-7.0.40\\webapps\\sapui5\\latest"
}
},
},
});
Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.
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