Open urls and files from a grunt task

Install alongside your Gruntfile

$ npm install --save grunt-open

This is immediately useful as part of your task chain between server and watch

grunt.registerTask('default', ['server', 'open', 'watch']);

You can specify different configurations so that you can set up task chains like

grunt.registerTask('dev', ['server', 'open:dev', 'watch']);
grunt.registerTask('build', ['build', 'server', 'open:build', 'watch:build');

Install this grunt plugin next to your project's Gruntfile with: npm install grunt-open

This is a very simple task and takes only one configuration parameter, path.

grunt.initConfig({
  open : {
    dev : {
      path: 'http://127.0.0.1:8888/src'
    },
    google : {
      path : 'http://google.com/'
    },
    file : {
      path : '/etc/hosts'
    }
  }
})

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-open');

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using grunt.

• 0.2.0 grunt 0.4.0 support, added and preferring path parameter.
• 0.1.0 initial release

Copyright OneHealth Solutions, Inc

Written by Jarrod Overson

Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.