How to Install Grunt on Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04 & LinuxMint 9/8

Grunt (The JavaScript Task Runner) is an automation tool to perform repetitive tasks like compilation, unit testing etc. Grunt has a long list of the plugin to perform tasks provided by its community. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Grunt & Grunt-cli on Ubuntu 19.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint 9/8 systems.

1. Install Node.js & NPM

If you already have node.js and npm installed on your system skip this step. Else you need to install node.js on your system first. Use the following set of commands to add node.js PPA in your Ubuntu system and install it.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Make sure you have successfully installed node.js and npm on your system

node --version
npm --version

2. Install Grunt using NPM

Now use the following command to install grunt and grunt CLI using npm command-line utility.

sudo npm install -g grunt

After successful installation makes sure grunt has been installed successful and check the version.

grunt --version

grunt-cli v1.2.0