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grunt-appverse-jsonserver

Grunt tasks to build and run a REST Server with JSON Files

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-appverse-jsonserver --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-appverse-jsonserver');

The "jsonserver" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named jsonserver to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  jsonserver: {
    options: {
      keepAlive:true
    },
    your_target: {
      apidir: 'api',
      port: 8888,
      options : {
        keepAlive:true
      }
    },
  },
})

Settings

apidir

Type: String

A string value with project directory with JSON files to route by the json-server

port

Type: Integer

The port number to use by the json-server

options.keepAlive

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Keep the server alive indefinitely. Note that if this option is enabled, any tasks specified after this task will never run. By default, once grunt's tasks have completed, the web server stops. This option changes that behavior. Use it when you run jsonserver task as standalone task, it is not necessary to use it with watch task combination.

Usage Examples

Multiple instances

In this example, we are setting different servers that will serve different JSON folders.

grunt.initConfig({
  jsonserver: {   
    server_api: {
       apidir: 'api',
       port: 8989
    },
    server_api2: {
       apidir: 'api2',
       port: 8999
    },
  },
})

You can run one target:

grunt jsonserver:server_api

grunt jsonserver:server_api2

Or run all the targets:

grunt jsonserver

keepAlive multiple instances

Grunt multi target task will run all targets found if no target specified, so in order to keep alive all instances, you only need to set the flag in the last target.

grunt.initConfig({
  jsonserver: {   
    server_api: {
       apidir: 'api',
       port: 8989
    },
    server_api2: {
       apidir: 'api2',
       port: 8999,
       options: {
         keepAlive: true
       }
    },
  },
})

The "jserver" task

This task no needs configuration, it just will run the json-server with default behaviour.

Directory: api

Port: 8888

Keep Alive: false

License

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the conditions of the AppVerse Public License v2.0 are met.

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