I just setup my Gruntfile.js file and loads all(9) devDependencies. To install these devDependencies, I used following mand

npm install name-of-plugin --save-dev

I used above mand 9 times for each dependency. Now what I want is to install all these dependency using one mand something like grunt install plugins or something else mand. That mand will read devDependencies from package.json file and install it for me.

Is this possible? If yes then how can I achieve this?

I just setup my Gruntfile.js file and loads all(9) devDependencies. To install these devDependencies, I used following mand

npm install name-of-plugin --save-dev

I used above mand 9 times for each dependency. Now what I want is to install all these dependency using one mand something like grunt install plugins or something else mand. That mand will read devDependencies from package.json file and install it for me.

Is this possible? If yes then how can I achieve this?

• javascript
• gruntjs

2 Answers 2

You have to add deveDependencies in package.json and npm install

package.json

{
  "name": "projectname",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {},

  "devDependencies": {
        "grunt": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-coffee": "~0.7.0",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-contrib-pass": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.6.0",
    "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "~0.6.0",
    "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "~0.1.3",
    "grunt-contrib-imagemin": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.2",
    "grunt-contrib-jade": "*",
    "grunt-autoprefixer": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-usemin": "~0.1.11",
    "grunt-svgmin": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-rev": "~0.1.0",
    "grunt-concurrent": "~0.3.0",
    "load-grunt-tasks": "~0.1.0"
  }
}

then run

 npm install

if you know your dependencies name then you try like this -

npm install grunt-contrib-sass grunt-contrib-uglify --save