module.exports = function (grunt) { grunt.registerTask('maybe_start_server', function () { var http = require('http'); var req = http.request({ method: 'HEAD', path: '/', host: 'localhost', port: 8000 }); function onResponse(res) { if (res.headers.pong === 'Kibana 4 Dev Server') { grunt.log.writeln('server already started'); } else { grunt.log.error('another server is already running at localhost:8000!'); } done(res); } function onError() { grunt.task.run(['server']); 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(); }); };