Grunt server: command not found in terminal

Question

In my project directory, I installed Grunt by using the following command:

npm install grunt

...after that I did Grunt server in my project directory but it gives me command not found error.

Raj$ grunt server
-bash: grunt: command not found

And:

npm install grunt
npm WARN package.json BID-2.0@0.0.0 No description
npm WARN package.json BID-2.0@0.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json BID-2.0@0.0.0 No README data

How can I fix it?

so you have the json file package.json? http://gruntjs.com/getting-started#package.json — Denis Tsoi, Mar 17 '14 at 05:06
Sorry for asking, but I'm assuming that you have node, npm installed? (check with node -v and npm -v)... *also - is node, npm installed globally* (with sudo or with the -g) — Denis Tsoi, Mar 17 '14 at 05:16
You need grunt-cli, check this http://stackoverflow.com/a/18877352/1366361 — 91bananas, Mar 17 '14 at 05:27
possible duplicate of [grunt: command not found when running from terminal](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16868924/grunt-command-not-found-when-running-from-terminal) — leszek.hanusz, Mar 17 '14 at 06:41

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 28 '14 at 20:03

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You need to install Grunt's command line interface (CLI) globally as well.

From their site:

npm install -g grunt-cli

You may need to use sudo command (for OSX, *nix, BSD etc) or run your command shell as Administrator (for Windows) to do this.

This will put the grunt command in your system path, allowing it to be run from any directory.

edited Aug 28 '14 at 20:03

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answered Aug 28 '14 at 19:55

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Dimitrios · Answer 2 · 2014-05-29T21:49:58.703

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You will have to install grunt after installing node / npm with: npm install -g grunt. Then it will be available at the cmd.

edited May 29 '14 at 21:49

answered May 29 '14 at 09:21

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