Unable to setup Grunt mac

Question

I have installed grunt on my system using npm install, and also have installed the command-line-interface for it, but when I try to run grunt it throws the following error, Fatal error: Unable to find Gruntfile. What is missing in here? There is no documentation for the error.

Answer 1

Your first route should be to use a search engine for things like this rather than as a question. Also, you should include what you tried for debugging as part of your question.

As for the answer...like the error says, grunt can't find your Gruntfile.js.

The grunt website has a getting started page that explains the basics of the tool and then another entire page dedicated strictly to the Gruntfile.

A quick search also showed that this question and variants of it have been answered many times on this site and on other pages around the internet.

But as a summary: if you didn't create a Gruntfile in your project directory, this is the error you get. The solution is to create a Gruntfile as the grunt docs describe.