We now have a Gruntfile...

[julian]

For those of you who develop on NodeBB, you may be interested to know that v0.7.0 (or the latest master commits) ship with a Gruntfile, and should substantially reduce times in between server restarts.

Thanks to the hard work put in by @psychobunny, grunt will now detect whether a change has been made to any files under its control, and refresh that aspect of NodeBB accordingly. If you've made a template change, only the templates will be recompiled, and the client-side scripts and stylesheets are left untouched.

I believe @frissdiegurke may be interested in this

Note: Please keep in mind this is for development purposes only. The official way to run NodeBB is still via the nodebb executable. (e.g. ./nodebb start)

Check out the documentation about it here!

[PitaJ]

Grunt!? Why not any of the billions of other choices you could have made for this?! /s

[psychobunny]

Down for other solutions (believe me, it was a pain in the ass trying to figure this out for NodeBB's compilation steps)

I'm just happy we lowered our restart time from > 10s to about 2s.

[julian]

@pitaj said:

Grunt!? Why not any of the billions of other choices you could have made for this?! /s

Be happy we didn't roll our own, and call it derp.js

[PitaJ]

It seems to be breaking the javascript for me

[julian]

@pitaj pull latest code, should've been fixed a couple days ago.

[henrywright]

Sorry to revisit this old thread, but regarding the docs, should the grunt command be used in place of ./nodebb dev?

[henrywright]

Ignore me. The docs answer my question:

Run grunt to start up NodeBB and watch for code changes.