Proxy for api calls.

Gruntfile.js

@@ -57,8 +57,32 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
                 port: 9000,
                 // Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
                 hostname: 'localhost',
-                livereload: 35729
+                livereload: 35729,
+                middleware: function (connect, options) {
+                    if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
+                        options.base = [options.base];
+                    }
+
+                    // Setup the proxy
+                    var middlewares = [require('grunt-connect-proxy/lib/utils').proxyRequest];
+
+                    // Serve static files.
+                    options.base.forEach(function(base) {
+                        middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
+                    });
+
+                    // Make directory browse-able.
+                    var directory = options.directory || options.base[options.base.length - 1];
+                    middlewares.push(connect.directory(directory));
+
+                    return middlewares;
+                }
             },
+            proxies: [{
+                context: '/api/',
+                host: '127.0.0.1',
+                port: 8080
+            }],
             livereload: {
                 options: {
                     open: true,
@@ -75,14 +99,6 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
             }
         },
 
-        // The node-server settings
-        develop: {
-            server: {
-                file: 'server/main.js',
-                nodeArgs: ['--debug']
-            }
-        },
-
         // Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
         jshint: {
             options: {
@@ -353,16 +369,16 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
 
     grunt.registerTask('serve', function (target) {
         if (target === 'dist') {
-            return grunt.task.run(['build', 'develop', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
+            return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
         }
 
-        grunt.task.run([
+        return grunt.task.run([
             'clean:server',
             'bowerInstall',
             'concurrent:server',
             'autoprefixer',
+            'configureProxies',
             'connect:livereload',
-            'develop',
             'watch'
         ]);
     });

package.json

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
         "grunt-autoprefixer": "~0.4.0",
         "grunt-bower-install": "~1.0.0",
         "grunt-concurrent": "~0.5.0",
+        "grunt-connect-proxy": "~0.1.10",
         "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
         "grunt-contrib-compass": "~0.7.2",
         "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",