[Grunt 0.3.17] reload task launches server each time & doesn't trigger refresh

[cemckinley]

Related to Issue #13

Same problem using Grunt 0.3.17 and grunt-reload 0.2 - the reload server is launched every time the reload task is run, therefore no page refresh is triggered. Unfortunately I can't upgrade to grunt 0.4 to get the updated version of the grunt-reload plugin, due to some other breakages.

I tried manually updating the reload.js task file to the 0.4 version (and installed the request dependency), and this fixes the issue except for one line that causes an undefined error - line 73:

var connectOpts = grunt.config(['connect', target]).options;

Not sure if the 'connect' config item is something new to grunt 0.4, but it's not required in my own 0.3.17 grunt file. Setting the connectOpts var to an empty object allowed the code to move on and run successfully.

I only tried the above with the proxy method, not iframe or liveReload so not sure if anything would affect those or other parts. Would love to see a fix implemented for 0.3.17 as well.

[logankoester]

I am also affected by this issue. Using the proxy method, I was able to work around the bug by overwriting reload.js from master (after running npm install request, a new dependency), but grunt dies when a LiveReload client connects:

/home/ldk/hack/learn/grunt-reload-bug/node_modules/grunt-reload/tasks/reload.js:198
                        grunt.event.emit('reload:' + data.command, connection)
                                    ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'emit' of undefined
    at WebSocketConnection.module.exports.grunt.registerTask.that (/home/ldk/hack/learn
/grunt-reload-bug/node_modules/grunt-reload/tasks/reload.js:198:37)
    at WebSocketConnection.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at WebSocketConnection.processFrame (/home/ldk/hack/learn/grunt-reload-bug/node_modules/grunt-
reload/node_modules/websocket/lib/WebSocketConnection.js:403:26)
    at WebSocketConnection.handleSocketData (/home/ldk/hack/learn/grunt-reload-bug/node_modules/gr
unt-reload/node_modules/websocket/lib/WebSocketConnection.js:247:14)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:396:14)