I've been trying to get familiar with a few popular Javascript repositories on GitHub. It seems that I often pull down the repository, then run into an issue with some sort of dependency. Usually this will be something encountered during the npm install or the grunt run.
To be clear, these are not node packages that would be installed by npm, rather console dependencies that some grunt packages seem to need in place and to be available in the system's path variable.
I've had to install Git, Java, Bower, PhantomJS, and other packages after cloning new repositories and trying to build them. My question is this: Is there a standard set of console utilities (beyond just nodejs and those things that are installable via npm) that are expected for doing Javascript builds via Grunt?