What is causing this error - “Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt”

Question

I removed the old version of grunt first, then I installed the new grunt version, and then I got this error:

D:\\www\\grunt-test\\grunt grunt-cli: The

Answer 1

Install Grunt in node_modules rather than globally

Unable to find local Grunt likely means that you have installed Grunt globally.

The Grunt CLI insists that you install grunt in your local node_modules directory, so Grunt is local to your project.

This will fail:

npm install -g grunt

Do this instead:

npm install grunt --save-dev