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Posted by J Donahue
J Donahue
30,790 Points

Gruntfile.js won't run

I am trying to follow the grunt tutorial and implement it into one of my projects. The following code is the code from my gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {

    grunt.initConfig({
        pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
        uglify: {
            build: {
                src:  'src/js/*.js',
                dest: 'js/appJS/timesInfinityJS/timesInfinity.min.js'
            }
        }
    });

    grunt.loadNPMTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');


    grunt.registerTask('default', ['uglify:build']);

};

When I try and run the grunt command in terminal I receive the following error:

Loading "gruntfile.js" tasks...ERROR

TypeError: undefined is not a function Warning: Task "default" not found. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

I have been searching on Google and staring at this for a few hours now with no luck.

1 Answer

J Donahue
J Donahue
30,790 Points

After a few days I finally figured out why this wouldn't run. Where it says grunt.loadNpmTasks(); I had capitalized every letter in npm. So not NPM but Npm is the correct syntax. I compared my file to the instructors again and again and my eyes just wouldn't see that.