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How to load a task using loadNpmTask in a grunt file if the module is in a different directory

Attempting to load a module: grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-express-server');

from an external directory.

Get error message: task .... does not exist. Did you download it?

Directory structure:

client/
  node_modules
  gruntfile
dev_server/
  node_modules/
    grunt-express-server

So my question is, how do I execute a grunt task using a node-module that is stored in an external directory?

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You will need to use grunt.task.loadtasks pointing it to the task directory you want to load.

In your case:

grunt.loadTasks('../dev_server/node_modules/grunt-express-server/tasks');

If you check the grunt master on github, on line 325 task.js it needs a task (... / tasks / express.js) file located in the file path you passed as a parameter.



// Load taskfile.
fn = require(path.resolve(filepath))

Edit

If you're wondering if you can move the grunt path to node_modules

, see this question

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