Node peerDependencies Errors With Grunt

Question

I'm having problems using grunt on a new project that I was asked to work on. When I run:

npm install

in my project directory I get a bunch of peerinvalid errors, like this:

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-clean@0.5.0 wants grunt@~0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-concat@0.4.0 wants grunt@~0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-jasmine@0.6.5 wants grunt@~0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-jshint@0.10.0 wants grunt@~0.4.0

etc..

When I run:

grunt --version

I get:

grunt-cli v0.1.13
grunt v0.4.4

I've been googling and messing around for a long time with no luck. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what grunt@~0.4.0 means?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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Your package.json may contain a dependency to a fixed version of grunt. Try to define:

  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "^0.4.0",
  }

or with an old version of npm:

  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.0",
  }

(see What's the difference between tilde(~) and caret(^) in package.json? for an explanation of differences between ~ and ^)

peerDependencies is used by grunt plugins to specify which version of grunt they needs. ~0.4.0 means about the version 0.4 and is equivalent to 0.4.x

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Sep 01 '14 at 20:16

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thanks, package.json does contain "grunt": "^0.4.4", I tried changing it to ~0.4.4, but it still doesn't work... any ideas why that might be? – Ralph D Sep 01 '14 at 20:23
did you try to remove the node_modules folder and run again `npm install` ? – krampstudio Sep 01 '14 at 20:27
try to change `^0.4.4` by `^0.4.0` – krampstudio Sep 01 '14 at 20:29
@krampstudio maybe you can complete your response with the versions of non you had in mind – Olimpiu POP Sep 01 '14 at 20:35

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