Stopping server on error

[Tyler Henkel]

First of all, I want to thank you for the great work you've done on this grunt plugin.

I have livereload watching my server files. The problem is, if I introduce any error in the server code and save the file, the server reloads, throws an error, and then hangs. This is kind of annoying because then I have to close the command prompt out and CD back into the project folder to restart the server.

Is there a way to simply stop the server when an exception is thrown?

[Eric Clemmons]

That's odd. I created this project because my server kept stopping whenever I introduced an error!

So, first, things first, can you post up your express portion of the grunt config? Second, are you exporting your server, as seen in server.js?

[Tyler Henkel]

Here's the express block

express: {
  options: {
    port: process.env.PORT || 9000
  },
  dev: {
    options: {
      script: 'server.js'
    }
  },
  prod: {
    options: {
      script: 'server.js',
      node_env: 'production'
    }
  }
},

I'm not exporting the server, is that important? I just tried exporting it a moment ago, then tried to introduce an error, and it still hung up.

[Eric Clemmons]

Ah, I see now. I'm having the same problem. I'll resolve it

[Eric Clemmons]

Oh, God. I'm an idiot. I was treating grunt.util.spawn's callback as an error function, but in fact, it's just a next() call.

[Eric Clemmons]

v0.4.7 should resolve this!

[Tyler Henkel]

Awesome, that fixed it! Thanks for the quick response!