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

# gradle

[thana]

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?

[tapchicoma]

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'])

[thana]

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

[thana]

as i said before we explicitly disabled parallel runs as it sometimes caused errors for us

[tapchicoma]

but you can pass --parallel for this case

[thana]

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

[tapchicoma]

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

[thana]

allright. thank you 🙂

[thana]

what i just realized: when i kill gradle node won't stop running. is that a gradle or a node problem?

[tapchicoma]

which way are you running node?

[thana]

i'm using <https://github.com/srs/gradle-node-plugin> s NpmTask which in the end will run npm start

[tapchicoma]

https://github.com/srs/gradle-node-plugin/issues/238

[thana]

funny. thanks for googling for me 😉