The version of grunt is too old to install some grunt-plugins by npm

[dcalsky]

Item	Version
generator-angular-fullstack	3.6.0
Node	4.2.1
npm	2.14.7
Operating System	OS X 10 / Windows 10 / Ubuntu 15.10 / etc
etc	etc

Item	Answer
Transpiler	TypeScript
Markup	Jade
CSS	Stylus
Router	ui-router
Build Tool	Grunt
Client Tests	Mocha
DB	MongoDB
Auth	Y
etc	etc

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grunt version is too old to install some grunt-plugins by npm ...

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package [email protected] does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.x
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>= 0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@~0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@^0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants grunt@>=0.4.0

So, I think it's important to update the version of grunt in the package.json

Like this

"grunt": "^0.4.5"

[Awk34]

This will fail on npm 2, but only warn on npm 3. If you can only install with npm 2, just change down to grunt 0.4.5

[dcalsky]

For compatibility, I think it's better to fix this problem on npm 2. Users who use npm 2 will meet the same problem like me.

[Awk34]

Ugh, annoying. I wonder if there's a way to force-install on npm 2.. There's one feature I recently added that depends on Grunt 1.0.0...

[dcalsky]

That's sounded like a sad story.
Thanks for your hardworking anyway.

[Awk34]

I'll just have to revert the Grunt 1.0.0 change and put a note next to the feature that requires Grunt 1.0.0. We can't have everyone on npm 2 broken from the get-go!

[Awk34]

Now that I look at it, I should be able to keep the new feature. If the user chooses Gulp, we install Grunt 1 & grunt-build-control (with proper peerDependency allowing Grunt 1.0.0). This allows us to have gulp buildcontrol tasks by proxying to Grunt + grunt-build-control, which requires Grunt ^1.0.0. Reverting to using Grunt 0.4.5 when a user chooses Grunt should still be fine though.

[Awk34]

npm shouldn't be warning that [email protected] is PEERINVALID for grunt@>=0.4.5, though, since 1.0.0 >= 0.4.5 is definitely true..