Call after (or done) callback after task ends

[schovi]

I have developement task like
grunt.registerTask("dev", ["server", "jshint", "copy:dev", "coffeelint", "coffee", "watch"])
which will start server and copy files from /src into /public where is index.html and server pointed.

This will copy (or compile) lot of files into public directory.
After my work session I want to cleanup this directory. I looked for something like after, done or teardone callback which will run some task after the main task is killed, or finished.

var task = grunt.registerTask("dev", ["server", "jshint", "copy:dev", "coffeelint", "coffee", "watch"])

// With Deferred API this will be called when main task is break, killed, finished or end from any other reason
task.always(function() {
  grunt.task.requires('cleanup');
})

I tried to check sources, but did not find anything like this. Is there any way, how to do that, or is it planning feature?

[pwmckenna]

👍

[nicooprat]

+1

I wanna use grunt-notify whenever a task finishes ; something like this would be very useful.

[andrewmartin]

👍

[fluffybunnies]

+1

[rantiev]

+1

[Luckvery]

+1

[13ruce1337]

👍

[chchrist]

👍

[bentolor]

👍 #542 mentioned plans to bring an event-based hook mechanism in https://github.com/tkellen/node-task
Unfortunately this subproject has been stopped.

[digitalmaster]

+100

[jonnung]

+101

[mdasberg]

I added a gist which I use to hook around the grunt.task.run here: https://gist.github.com/mdasberg/92455614afbe6987cc8f

[mitramejia]

That would be great +1

[isader]

+100

[dev-mraj]

+1000