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Penny O'Sullivan
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Can I fix the “fatal error: unable to find local grunt” or not?

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I get an error

D:\www\grunt-test\grunt grunt-cli: The grunt command line interface.
  (v0.1.4)
  
  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

when trying to remove the old version of grunt first, then I installed the new grunt version. How to fix the fatal error: unable to find local grunt. error? Please give me some advice.

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    The cause: You get the fatal error: unable to find local grunt because your project directory lacks a grunt.js file.

    Solution:

    To solve this kind of error, you can use grunt:init to access options like jQuery, node, commonjs. Choose what you desire, then carry on. This is effective.

    It will work if you do it like this:

    1. npm install -g grunt
2. grunt:init ( you will get following options ):
jquery: A jQuery plugin
node: A Node module
commonjs: A CommonJS module
gruntplugin: A Grunt plugin
gruntfile: A Gruntfile (grunt.js)
3 .grunt init:jquery (if you want to create a jQuery related project.).

    Fix for v1.4:

    1. npm install -g grunt-cli
2. npm init
fill all details and it will create a package.json file.
3. npm install grunt (for grunt dependencies.)

    The new version’s solution updated:

    npm install grunt --save-dev
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  2. Grunt should be installed in node_modules, not globally

    Unable to find local Grunt is likely to mean that Grunt has been installed globally.

    Grunt CLI requires that grunt be installed in your local directory of node_modules, so Grunt can be found within your project.

    This will not work: 

    npm install -g grunt

    Instead, do this: 

    npm install grunt --save-dev
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