gulp-service
This plugin is using node's child processes to let you run individual services such as restful api-servers, thus, may be restarted according to your neeeds. Issues should be reported using github's issues tracker.
install
npm install gulp-service --save-devexample
// gulpfile.js
var gulp = require('gulp')
, service = require('gulp-service');
gulp.task('run:service', function(){
service.run('app/index.js', {
env: {
port: 8080
}
});
});
gulp.task('watch', function(){
gulp.watch(['app/**'], ['run:service']);
});// app/index.js
var express = require('express')
, app = module.exports.app = exports.app = express();
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send('service is up!');
})
app.listen(process.env.port);
