Why need to install grunt?

[brunano21]

Why should I need to install grunt, even if it is installed already globally?

[srs]

The installGrunt task installs a project-local grunt and used a locally installed node (if you want it to). This is to simplify the build by not require the user to install both node and grunt.

[diegogoncalves]

Is there an option to use the global grunt-cli? I think it makes sense to each project have a specific grunt installed but the grunt-cli would be better if I could use the global version

[tomkalafut]

I have installed grunt and grunt-cli 87 times (in my local node_modules directory), and my GruntTask dependsOn installGrunt. Whenever I run the GruntTask via gradle, it insists that "Grunt-CLI not installed in node_modules". What am I missing?

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buildscript { dependencies { classpath "com.moowork.gradle:gradle-node-plugin:1.2.0" } }

plugins { id "com.moowork.node" version "1.2.0" id "com.moowork.grunt" version "1.2.0" }

...

task updateRules(type: GruntTask, dependsOn: installGrunt) { args = ["update-rules-data"] }

task build(dependsOn: updateRules)

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misc/docs (default:tip+) [1] % gradle build using default :nodeSetup UP-TO-DATE :npmSetup SKIPPED :installGrunt UP-TO-DATE :updateRules FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':updateRules'.

Grunt-CLI not installed in node_modules, please first run 'gradle installGrunt'

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WTF?