I am currently using Grunt and livereload, but for some reason in the last while it no longer does a full Server restart when server files are changed. It is watching the server files and I get a Reload server/some_dir/some_file.js message when a file changes but that doesn't seem to be enough.

watch: {
  jade: {
    files: [
      '/**/*.jade',
      '/**/*.jade'
    ],
    tasks: ['jade']
  },
  compass: {
    files: ['/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
    tasks: ['compass']
  },
  livereload: {
    options: { livereload: true },
    files: [
      '{.tmp,}/**/*.js',
      '{.tmp,}/styles/{,*/}*.css',
      '{.tmp,}/scripts/**/*.js',
      '{.tmp,}/**/*.html',
      '/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
    ],
    tasks: ['livereload']
  },
  server: {
    files:  [ './server/**/*' ],
    tasks:  [ 'express:dev', 'livereload-start' ]
  }
}

grunt.registerTask('server', [
  'clean:server',
  'jade',
  'compass:server',
  'express:dev',
  'livereload-start',
  'connect:livereload',  
  'watch'  // if I replace this with 'watch:server' the server does restart properly, but html/css updates are obviously gone
]);

Changing

server: {
  files:  [ './server/**/*' ],
  tasks:  [ 'express:dev', 'livereload-start' ]
}

to

server: {
  files:  [ './server/**/*' ],
  tasks:  [ 'express:dev', 'livereload' ]
}

Not sure what recent change caused this to break. According to git the former snippet was used since the start of the project.