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 grunt@1.0.1 does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-express-server@0.5.3 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-mocha-istanbul@4.0.2 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-tslint@3.1.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer jit-grunt@0.10.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-build-control@0.7.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-karma@0.12.2 wants grunt@>=0.4.x
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-ng-constant@2.0.1 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-postcss@0.8.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-concat@1.0.1 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-filerev@2.3.1 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-usemin@3.1.1 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-ng-annotate@2.0.2 wants grunt@>=0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-clean@1.0.0 wants grunt@>= 0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-injector@0.6.1 wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-newer@1.2.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-dom-munger@3.4.0 wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-jshint@1.0.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-wiredep@2.0.0 wants grunt@~0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-tsd@0.1.0 wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-protractor-runner@2.1.2 wants grunt@~0.4.1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-ts@5.4.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-concurrent@2.3.0 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-nodemon@0.4.2 wants grunt@>=0.4.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-node-inspector@0.4.1 wants grunt@^0.4.5
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer grunt-contrib-imagemin@1.0.0 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 grunt@1.0.1 is PEERINVALID for grunt@>=0.4.5, though, since 1.0.0 >= 0.4.5 is definitely true..