Start MongoDB from within a Grunt task

Question

Is it possible to start MongoDB from within a Grunt task? Basically when I\'m running my development environment with grunt server I want it to start up the Mo

Answer 1

You can use grunt-shell-spawn to do this. The previous answer recommends grunt-shell, which runs synchronously on the main process - blocking execution of other tasks.

shell: {
    mongo: {
        command: 'mongod',
        options: {
            async: true
        }
    }
}