grunt-start-servers

Grunt task to start and stop Mongo and Redis on your local workstation. Should be easy to add new types of servers too.

WARNING:

This has only been tested on OSX. In fact I know it won't work on windows. It would be nice if someone could help me out on Windows.

Setup

Add a servers section similar to the following to your gruntfile:

grunt.initConfig({

    ... YOUR OTHER CONFIG ...
    
    servers:{
        mongo:{
            dbPath: "servers/mongo"
        },
        redis:{
            dbPath: "servers/redis"
        }
    }
        
});

Then you can run commands like:

grunt servers:start
grunt servers:status
grunt servers:stop

Future Plans

I plan to add further configuration options for each server type and possible helpers for loading initial data etc.