How to automate npm and bower install with grunt

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I have a node / angular project that uses npm for backend dependency management and bower for frontend dependency management. I'd like to use a grunt task to do both install commands. I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

I made an attempt using exec, but it doesn't actually install anything.

module.exports = function(grunt) {

    grunt.registerTask('install', 'install the backend and frontend dependencies', function() {
        var exec = require('child_process').exec,
            sys  = require('sys');

        function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { console.log(stdout); sys.puts(stdout) }

        // assuming this command is run from the root of the repo
        exec('bower install', {cwd: './frontend'}, puts);
    });

};

When I cd into frontend, open up node, and run this code from the console, this works fine. What am I doing wrong in the grunt task?

Oct 13, 2020 in Node-js by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

To install client side components during npm install at the same time than server side libs, you can add in your package.json

"dependencies": {
    ...
    "bower" : ""
},
"scripts": {
    ...
    "postinstall" : "bower install"
}

I prefer to make the difference between install and test/build

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!

answered Oct 13, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,880 points

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