Creating a '--force' task in Grunt

Sometimes you might need to use '--force' with Grunt when building or testing your app .
If you use this option like this for example "grunt server --force", the --force option will be applied to all Grunt tasks.

But normally you would like to apply the '--force' option for some grunt tasks but leave other tasks in the sequence without the '--force' option.

The way I do this is 'wrapping' the task I want to use '--force' between two other tasks that will set the '--force' option ON and OFF.

Here it is the code:

grunt.registerTask('forceOn', 'turns the --force option ON',
 function() {
 if ( !grunt.option( 'force' ) ) {
 grunt.config.set('forceStatus', true);
 grunt.option( 'force', true );
 }
 });

 grunt.registerTask('forceOff', 'turns the --force option Off',
 function() {
 if ( grunt.config.get('forceStatus') ) {
 grunt.option( 'force', false );
 }
 });

You can then wrap the task you want to use '--force' with these two tasks, like this:

grunt.task.run([
 'clean:server',
 'replace',
 'forceOn', <-- turn the --force ON
 'concurrent:server', <-- this task will use the --force option 
 'forceOff', <-- turn the --force OFF
 'connect:livereload', <-- all the remaining tasks won't use --force
 'open',
 'watch'
 ]);