Switched to grunt-express-server from grunt-express and added grunt watch express task.

Author: jesserosato

Gruntfile.js

@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.initConfig({
     pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
     express: {
-      custom: {
+      dev: {
         options: {
           port: 3000,
-          bases: 'public',
-          server: 'app.js'
+          script: 'app.js'
         }
       }
     },
@@ -21,14 +20,21 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
       css: {
         files: '**/*.scss',
         tasks: ['sass']
+      },
+      express: {
+        files:  [ 'app.js', 'routes/*.js' ],
+        tasks:  [ 'express:dev' ],
+        options: {
+          spawn: false // for grunt-contrib-watch v0.5.0+, "nospawn: true" for lower versions. Without this option specified express won't be reloaded
+        }
       }
     }
   });
 
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-npm-install');
-  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-express');
-  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-express-server');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
   grunt.registerTask('build-dev', ['npm-install']);
-  grunt.registerTask('dev', ['express', 'watch', 'express-keepalive']);
+  grunt.registerTask('dev', ['express:dev', 'watch']);
 }

package.json

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     "debug": "~0.7.4",
     "dotenv": "^0.4.0",
     "express": "~4.2.0",
+    "grunt-express-server": "^0.4.19",
     "jade": "~1.3.0",
     "morgan": "~1.0.0",
     "serve-favicon": "^2.0.1",