Grunt on Windows 8: 'grunt' is not recognized

Question

I\'m having a problem running Grunt from the command line on my Windows 8 machine.

My research indicates the most common solution is to install grunt-cli, since Gru

Answer 1

I know this has been answered but I thought I'd offer my step by step solution for windows 8.

First thing I checked was the PATH in my laptops Environment Variables (Right click my computer > properties > advanced system settings > Environment Variables)

It wasn't listed in there so I added a new variable in User variables (so it was specific only to my user account)

In the new user variable prompt I entered the following;

Variable Name: PATH

Variable Value: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm

Quit command prompt, repoened, navigated to my projects directory and tried running grunt again and... SUCCESS!