How to run grunt 0.4.* without grunt-cli

Question

How to run grunt 0.4.* without grunt-cli

I wonder if it's possible to run grunt 0.4.* without having installed grunt-cli.

I understand that grunt-cli looks for the version of grunt installed in node-modules in my project directory in order to run that version of grunt but...is it possible to run grunt without having grunt-cli installed? How?

Thanks in advance!

node.js
gruntjs

Answer 1

The grunt-cli is a very small amount of code. If I was you I would look through it in the GitHub repository. That way you will learn what it does, and it's very easy to do the same.

I have had luck with running it with no grunt-cli. You can do it with the following command:

node -e "require('grunt').cli()"

If you want to specify tasks you can do it like this:

node -e "var g = require('grunt'); g.cli.tasks = ['default']; g.cli()"

Answer 2

try

node -e "require('grunt').cli();"

if you're on a mac / unix

Answer 3

You can try from some other script:

var grunt = require('grunt');
grunt.cli();

That will look for the grunt package and execute the Gruntfile.js.