module.exports = function (grunt) { var maybeStartServer = function (options) { return function () { var http = require('http'); var req = http.request({ method: 'HEAD', path: '/', host: 'localhost', port: options.port }); function onResponse(res) { if (res.statusCode === 200) { grunt.log.writeln('server already started'); } else { grunt.log.error('another server is already running at localhost:8000!'); } done(res); } function onError() { grunt.config.set(options.name, true); grunt.task.run(options.tasks); done(); } var done = (function (cb) { return function (res) { req.removeListener('error', onError); req.removeListener('response', onResponse); if (res) res.socket.destroy(); cb(); }; })(this.async()); req.on('error', onError); req.on('response', onResponse); req.end(); }; }; grunt.registerTask('maybe_start_server', maybeStartServer({ name: 'connect-server', port: 8000, tasks: ['server'] })); grunt.registerTask('maybe_start_kibana', maybeStartServer({ name: 'kibana-server', port: 5601, tasks: ['kibana_server'] })); };