“Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.” when running “grunt” command

Question

I uninstalled grunt with following command.

npm uninstall -g grunt

Then I again installed grunt with following command.

npm ins         


        

Answer 1

This solved the issue for me. I mistakenly installed grunt using:

sudo npm install -g grunt --save-dev

and then ran the following command in the project folder:

npm install

This resulted in the error seen by the author of the question. I then uninstalled grunt using:

sudo npm uninstall -g grunt

Deleted the node_modules folder. And reinstalled grunt using:

npm install grunt --save-dev

and running the following in the project folder:

npm install

For some odd reason when you global install grunt using -g and then uninstall it, the node_modules folder holds on to something that prevents grunt from being installed locally to the project folder.