we are developing an application consisting of a frontend and a backend part. the frontend aprt is started via

npm start

and the backend part can be startet via

./gradlew bootRun

. to ease start of the whole application i'd like to provide a gradle task which would start both. while starting each part alone is wasy, is there a way to start both in parallel with a single task? How would this tasks look like?

add a task

startFrontend

for

npm start

in Gradle (https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.Exec.html) and then add following task:

task startAll(dependsOn: ['bootRun', 'startFrontend'])

that doesn;t work because both tasks must run in parallel - which is impossible that way, as both tasks will run indefinitly

but you can pass

--parallel

for this case

true, but still kind of ugly in my eyes 😉 i'd love if i could convince gradle to always run THESE TWO and only these two tasks in paralell

as far as I know there is no such way if you disable parallel builds

allright. thank you 🙂

which way are you running

node

?

i'm using

<https://github.com/srs/gradle-node-plugin>

s

NpmTask

which in the end will run

npm start

funny. thanks for googling for me 😉