Photobox with connect or express server

[dtothefp]

I've been trying to implement grunt-photobox on a current project and cannot seem to get it to generate the photobox directory. Before implementing a local server I ran the grunt photobox task and it generated the photobox directory with the img > last directory and created an index.html page showing diffs and kittens, but since implementing a server I cannot get the task to produce any results. The terminal output upon running the photobox task is

Done, without errors.

I've tried implementing this in a local environment running both an express and connect server. Essentially, I have tried running the server in one terminal tab and in another tab running the photobox grunt task from within the repo. Here are examples

Connect: https://github.com/dtothefp/grunt-photobox-connect

Express: https://github.com/dtothefp/grunt-photobox-express

-- In both cases a watch is setup on the main.css file to run the photobox task upon any change.

[stefanjudis]

Hey thanks for creating the issue.

Please provide gruntfile, photobox version and node version. So that I can have a deeper look on it. :bowtie:

Output of grunt execution with --verbose flag may also help. :)

[dtothefp]

Using node version 0.10.29 and photobox version 0.8.0. Gruntfiles are here

https://github.com/dtothefp/grunt-photobox-connect/blob/master/Gruntfile.js https://github.com/dtothefp/grunt-photobox-express/blob/master/Gruntfile.js

and you can clone either/both repos to see if you get the same results. I've attached screenshots of running

grunt photobox --verbose

Look forward to hearing back

[stefanjudis]

Great... Will have a look now. :)

[stefanjudis]

EDITED:

  grunt.initConfig( {
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

    photobox: {
      local : {
        options: {
          urls: [ 'http://localhost:3000' ],
          screenSizes: [ '400', '600', '1200' ],
          indexPath: 'public/photobox/'
        }
      }
    }
  }

Try that one. :)

[stefanjudis]

Please feel free to ask further questions or to close the issue. :)

[dtothefp]

That didn't have any affect. I'm confused, I though the url was the path to the page where screenshots should be taken?

[stefanjudis]

Ahh shit... sorry - bad example.

It's more about the local, please define the task to execute...

It work's with localhost:3000, too.

And defining sizes with 400x600 is depcretated. Please use the screenwidth, only. :)

[dtothefp]

Awesome that seems to work now, it was the missing target and probably the size definition messing it up. I'm going to work to implement it into my current project and will close the issue if successful

[stefanjudis]

Great. Glad I could help. :+1: :smile: