如何在Windows上的webstorm中设置grunt

Question

I am Using Webstorm (PHPStorm) on Windows 7 . On the actual project we are using grunt to concatenate javascript and css and also for several other build processes.

I tried to setup the grunt command as an external run command in Webstorm. The settings i tried for that are:

Name: grunt  
Parameters: none  
WorkingDirectory: $ProjectFileDir$

So now when I am trying to start my external run command in Webstorm, I always get the error

> grunt
Cannot run program "grunt" (in directory "C:\Users\jawidmer\workspaces\projectname"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

When I open my command line tool and navigate to the project folder, I can start grunt without any problems.

I already searched in google and tried all kinds of different combinations of settings but non of them worked..

Do you have any ideas, what I have to change to be able to start grunt from external run commands in Webstorm?

Thanks Jan

Answer 1

By your description, I assume that the same way I configured it in my WebStorm installation should work just fine for you too:

I hope it helps.

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UPDATE

It seems that if you add > %TEMP%\\grunt & type %TEMP%\\grunt & del %TEMP%\\grunt to Parameters (like shown in the updated image), the build errors will be shown.

If you need to configure a task (for example grunt watch ), the Parameters field must be the following:

watch > %TEMP%\grunt & type %TEMP%\grunt & del %TEMP%\grunt

Tip taken from here

Answer 2

Maybe this variant will be useful for somebody: Settings -> External Tools

With this tool I can right-click folder in project and in context menu select grunt -> build

Answer 3

As I had problems with the path of node and grunt in linux. I've decide to add the following in Settings->External Tools, I guess in windows can be done in the same way (PHPstorm 7, in the same dialog as the prior answers):

Name: grunt Group: Node

Program: /opt/nodes/current/bin/node (my path to node files) Parameters: /my/directory/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt watch (my path to grunt-cli binary and the parameter to the task of grunt) Working directory: /home/user/project/ (my path to Gruntfile.js)