Server Static Files about grunt-express-server

[ericclemmons]

This isn't something you do in your app.js file? (Trying to understand...)

[jacinto123]

I can do it in my app.js file but since I only use this for dev i have to add an if statement check the node env which to me seems dirty.

[ericclemmons]

Ah, that's the same way I do it, especially since I also add a logger in development mode.

I don't think that's a feature I'll be adding to this project. The express task operates on the http.createServer(...) that's returned, not the express.app(...) itself. In other words, it's quite a bit outside the scope.

grunt-express's project scope encompasses this, and differs from grunt-express-server in that this project was created for use with Genesis Skeleton to make it easy to just have livereload capabilities. Everything else actually adds a good amount of complexity, such as auto-adding files to watch, appending middleware to app, etc.

Blai's project is pretty great, so I'd recommend using that if grunt-based middleware is what you need!