Fatal error Unable to find local grunt when running grunt command

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I uninstalled grunt with following command   npm uninstall -g grunt   Then I again installed grunt with following command   npm install -g grunt-cli   Visit following link   https   npmjs org package grunt-html  I want to use the above grunt plugin  But when I run the grunt command it gives me following error   D  nodeJS node modules grunt-html gt grunt grunt-cli  The grunt command line interface   v0 1 6   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

User · Accepted Answer

All is explained quite nicely on gruntjs.com.

Note that installing grunt-cli does not install the grunt task runner! The job of the grunt CLI is simple: run the version of grunt which has been installed next to a Gruntfile. This allows multiple versions of grunt to be installed on the same machine simultaneously.

So in your project folder, you will need to install (preferably) the latest grunt version:

npm install grunt --save-dev

Option --save-dev will add grunt as a dev-dependency to your package.json. This makes it easy to reinstall dependencies.

User · Answer

This solved the issue for me  I mistakenly installed grunt using   sudo npm install -g grunt --save-dev   and then ran the following command in the project folder   npm install   This resulted in the error seen by the author of the question  I then uninstalled grunt using   sudo npm uninstall -g grunt   Deleted the node modules folder  And reinstalled grunt using   npm install grunt --save-dev   and running the following in the project folder   npm install   For some odd reason when you global install grunt using -g and then uninstall it  the node modules folder holds on to something that prevents grunt from being installed locally to the project folder

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I had the same issue today on windows 32 bit with node 0 10 25  and grunt 0 4 5   I followed dongho s answer  with just few extra steps  here are the steps I used to solve the error   1  create your package json    npm init   2  install grunt for this project  this will be installed under node modules   --save-dev will add this module to devDependency in your package json    npm install grunt --save-dev   3  then create gruntfile js   with a sample code like this   module exports   function grunt       grunt initConfig       jshint          files    Gruntfile js    src      js    test      js          options            globals              jQuery  true                              watch          files     lt    jshint files   gt           tasks    jshint                  grunt loadNpmTasks  grunt-contrib-jshint      grunt loadNpmTasks  grunt-contrib-watch       grunt registerTask  default     jshint           here  src      js and test      js should be the paths to actual JS files you are using in your project  4  run npm install grunt-contrib-jshint --save-dev  5  run npm install grunt-contrib-watch --save-dev  6  run   grunt   Note  when you require common package like concat  uglify etc  you need to add those modules via npm install  just the way we installed jshint and watch in step 4  amp  5

User · Answer

I think you have to add grunt to your package json file  See this link

User · Answer

You have to install grunt in your project folder   create your package json    npm init  install grunt for this project  this will be installed under node modules   --save-dev will add this module to devDependency in your package json    npm install grunt --save-dev  then create gruntfile js and run    grunt

User · Answer

I had this issue on my Windows grunt because I installed the 32 bit version of Node on a 64 bit Windows OS  When I installed the 64bit version specifically  it started working

User · Answer

if you are a exists project  maybe should execute npm install   guntjs getting started step 2

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