grunt-express-server with contrib-watch

Question

I am trying to use both grunt-express-server and grunt-contrib-watch however, as soon as my express server starts, it no longer seems to do any wat

Answer 1

I was able to clone your project and able to get everything running with the following tweak in server.js:

app.listen(3000);

into:

app.listen(3000, function() {
  console.log('Server listening on port 3000');
});

According to the grunt-express-server's "Usage" docs, your server should console.log some output so that the grunt task can tell that the server has started successfully.

(This is because starting the server is asynchronous, which can cause a race-condition with LiveReload)

Otherwise, there is a delay option for purists who don't want any output from their application :)