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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