是否有最低版本的“ npm install grunt”？

Question

When I run npm install grunt I get, in my opinion, a heavily polluted project folder. In the folder node_modules there are libs like rimraf, coffescript and others I really don't want to use. Are these required for grunt itself to be able to run or are they only there for my convenience?

I would like some kind of "npm install grunt --minimal" to only install an absolute minimum of what's needed to be able to use grunt. I don't really like my project folder full of stuff that's not really my own code. I've googled the terms i can come up with, like "minimal grunt install", but only found the basic install tutorials.

Answer 1

Create a node_modules directory in a directory above your project's directory and do npm install grunt there. That way the modules are accessible but they aren't in your project's node_modules directory.

Another option is to use npm install -g grunt to install grunt globally.

Answer 2

No, you can not. Grunt is npm package and it has dependencies (this is normal). The fact is this dependencies don't pollute your project folder structure. It is normal to

• add node_modules to .gitignore and don't commit it

• install every npm package with --save flag (will write package to package.json) or --save-dev flag (will write package to package.json as package needed for development)

• commit package.json to repository. Thus, every team member can install all packages via npm install or npm install --production

As Dan said you can install grunt globally with -g flag but this will not solve your problem as every npm package that you install will have it own dependencies (and you'll probably think that it pollutes you folder structure as well)

You know, there are a lot of things that you need for development (or production). While installing apache (or something else) you don't say that is pollutes your file system (but it has own folder and so on).

Things don't pollute file structure if they don't exist in your project repository.