grunt-fileserver
Fast customizable development server
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4
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-fileserver --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt;
The "fileserver" task
Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named fileserver
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
.
grunt;
Options
options.port
Type: Number
Default value: 8080
TCP connection port
options.hostname
Type: String
Default value: 0.0.0.0
Hostname which will listen the requests
options.cwd
Type: String
Default value: .
Current Working directory. All referencies will be relative to this.
options.root
Type: String
Default value: ``
Folder to use as server root directory
options.dirAlias
Type: Object
Default value: {}
List of directories alias. This allows using directories outside root directory to be served as them was in.
options.keepalive
Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Enable or Disable keep server running. You may choose keep server running by other way. For example running watch after fileserver.
Release History
- 2014-05-13 v0.1.16 Now supports dir alias.
- 2014-11-17 v0.1.25 Added openInBrowser and addExtension
- 2014-11-18 v0.1.26 Updating README
- 2014-11-18 v0.1.27 addExtension fix