'grunt' is not recognized as an internal or external command for some windows users

Question

Grunt is not working for all Windows users. Some users are facing some issues, when I run npm install command; it prints a message as below.

E:\Worksapce\web>npm install
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.

When I tried npm install -g grunt-cli, I think it is successful.

E:\Worksapce\web>npm install -g grunt-cli
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/grunt-cli
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/grunt-cli
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/findup-sync
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/resolve
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/resolve
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/findup-sync
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
C:\Users\user1234\AppData\Roaming\npm\grunt -> C:\Users\user1234\AppData\Roaming
\npm\node_modules\grunt-cli\bin\grunt
[email protected] C:\Users\user1234\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\grunt-cli
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected] ([email protected])
+-- [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])

But when I run grunt, I get an error message like this:

E:\Worksapce\web>
E:\Worksapce\web>grunt
'grunt' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

My package.json is this.

{
  "author": "Company",
  "name": "registers",
  "version": "4.0.0",
  "homepage": "http://abcd.se",
  "dependencies": {},
  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.4",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.9.2",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.6.1",
    "grunt-contrib-less": "~0.11.0",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.4.0",
    "grunt-ngmin": "0.0.3",
    "grunt-contrib-jasmine": "~0.5.2"
  }
}

Another user is succesfully able to execute grunt with out any issues. This only stands for some of the users.

Can some one tell me what has gone wrong.

Answer 1

Grunt is no longer installed globally. See the Getting Started page for more information.

The command below should help you fix this;

npm install -g grunt-cli