I've installed both the grunt-cli and grunt globally using the -g option.
However when I try and run grunt I get this error:
grunt --gruntfile /Users/a/root/config/Gruntfile.js
grunt-cli: The grunt command line interface. (v0.1.13)
Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.
If you're seeing this message, either a Gruntfile wasn't found or grunt
hasn't been installed locally to your project. For more information about
installing and configuring grunt, please see the Getting Started guide:
http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
This is confusing as it seems to say that you are suppose to do a local install.
It seems contradictory actually. I clearly have a grunt file in place.
Grunt-cli is installed globally so that the grunt command is available to be run from any location on your system. Without the global installation, you would need to rely on somewhat abstract methods of running local grunt installs (npm run-script and friends), which are clunky for this use.
The entire point of the global install is only to load and run a local Gruntfile.js using the locally installed version of Grunt. The error message indicates this:
either a Gruntfile wasn't found or grunt hasn't been installed locally to your project.
In other words, to run Grunt, you need to create a Gruntfile.js and you must have a local copy of Grunt installed to your project alongside the file. The CLI is just there to kick off the process without troublesome fiddling.
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I have a .NET (4.7) Web Application inside a project directory called MyWebApp.Web
As part of the build process I run npm install, webpack-cli is a dependency.
But when I run the webpack build task with MyWebApp.Web set as the working directory I get the following error:
Error: Cannot find module 'D:\a\1\s\MyWebApp.Web\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:742:12)
at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:236:19)
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:560:3)
If I try and run webpack via an NPM script I get webpack's built in interactive "a CLI must be installed" prompt, indicating that the module cannot be found.
Is there anything I'm missing that needs to be in place for webpack to "see" the node modules?
It transpires that in the Variables tab process.env.NODE_ENV was set to production so dev dependencies were not being installed.
Removing this environment variable solved the problem.
I was doing this specifically to invoke webpack's "production" mode (partly because that's how the webpack Visual Studio extension works). This approach always worked on dev environments because the modules were already installed from previous development builds but on the VSTS build agent we were only ever running a production build.
I've now set up separate webpack.common.js, webpack.config.js (for dev), and webpack.prod.js files using webpack-merge, as per the webpack documentation. This targets different configs to different environments rather than relying on environment variables.
try :
npm i webpack webpack-cli -g --save-dev
I am following the installation guidelines as described on mean.js.org Everything seemed to install fine. I have all prereqs installed. I ran npm install after cloning the github repo and then tried to run grunt and I didnt get any errors however It seems to just be stalling on the command line. Last message on the command line is the "debugger is running on port 5858" and then it just sits there.
After some time the message [nodemon] watching 51,839 files - this might cause high cpu usage. To reduce use "--watch" comes up. I am on windows 10 and have all the latest versions of node,npm,grunt and mean.js. I am running the command line as admin.
Mean.js should be running on localhost:3000 but it is not.
This is intended.
There is an application invoked by the grunt command and running in background, watching your files for changes. In default configuration: nodemon and grunt-watch.
This will execute specific tasks based on the files you edited, such as linting JS files or compiling LESS files.
The cmd will probably show something when you edit files in the projects directory.
I have a Grunt setup on my machine that's running SASS, Compass, Watch, Uglify... that kind of stuff. I've installed it using the command line (npm install...) from a tutorial.
I want to create a Grunt folder for another project. Is it okay to just copy that first folder and change the names? Is there some reason I should install the new one from the command line as well?
it will depends on what context you installed if was local or globally (-g).
If you installed locally without -g option, you are find to copy and past the folders.
However, would be a great practice to reuse only the package.json file and run the command, for your next project:
$ npm install
I copied an existing Grunt project from git repo and when i run - grunt serve-dev command it tells me the following:
Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.
If you're seeing this message, either a Gruntfile wasn't found or grunt
hasn't been installed locally to your project. For more information about
installing and configuring grunt, please see the Getting Started guide:
http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
But if i - grunt -version it says:grunt-cli v0.1.13.
What might be the issue?
Be sure to run npm install after cloning the repo. Usually the node_modules, such as grunt aren't included the repo itself by default, but you must install them yourself.
The install page on the Grunt website gives the following suggestion
Grunt and Grunt plugins should be defined as devDependencies in your
project's package.json. This will allow you to install all of your
project's dependencies with a single command: npm install.
I want to use grunt to run some tasks that are specific to local development, e.g.
development: concatenate javascript, but dont minify
production: concatenate and minify javascript
If I install Grunt as a dev dependency, does this mean when I run NPM install on the production server - grunt will not be installed into node modules?
What is the correct option to be able to use Grunt both locally and on the production server?
It doesn't matter if you install Grunt as a dev dependency, it will still be installed when you run npm install.
The scenario where dev dependencies are not installed is when you run npm install <package> because the consensus is you are an end user looking to use (not build/test) the package. However, you can still include the dev dependencies by adding the --dev flag.
You should install grunt with --save-dev. What it does is add a line to your project's package.json. Similar to when you install any other node module with --save-dev. Then, if you run npm install on any machine with the same package.json, all those modules will be downloaded and installed locally, and usable by your project.
As for running different tasks in production and development, I assume you know how to configure grunt to do that.