Yeoman connect mod-rewrite for Angular html5 routing

Gruntfile.js

connect: {
            options: {
                port: 9000,
                // Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
                hostname: '0.0.0.0',
                middleware: function (connect, options) {
                    var middlewares = [];
                    var directory = options.directory || options.base[options.base.length - 1];

                    // enable Angular's HTML5 mode
                    middlewares.push(
                        require('connect-modrewrite')(['!\\.html|\\.js|\\.svg|\\.css|\\.png|\\.woff$ /index.html [L]'])
                    );

                    if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
                        options.base = [options.base];
                    }
                    options.base.forEach(function (base) {
                        // Serve static files.
                        middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
                    });

                    // Make directory browse-able.
                    middlewares.push(connect.directory(directory));

                    // CORS
                    middlewares.push(function(req, res, next) {
                        res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
                        res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
                        res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');
                        next();
                    });

                    return middlewares;
                },
                livereload: 35729
            },
            livereload: {
                options: {
                    open: true,
                    base: [
                        '.tmp',
                        '<%= yeoman.app %>'
                    ]
                }
            },
            test: {
                options: {
                    port: 9001,
                    base: [
                        '.tmp',
                        'test',
                        '<%= yeoman.app %>'
                    ]
                }
            },
            dist: {
                options: {
                    base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
                }
            }
        },