feature: new core task for automatically running npm update/install

[gruntjs]

feature: new core task for automatically running npm update/install

[jokeyrhyme]

I just went over the workflow with a co-worker and in doing so realised just how weird it is that grunt-cli doesn't already do this.

1. npm -g install grunt-cli
2. npm install or npm install grunt
3. grunt

[tkellen]

I can automate this myself in a Makefile, but then why bother even using grunt then?

Are you really making the argument that you'd prefer to put your entire build process in a Makefile vs typing npm install?

I have to concur with all of Ben's reasons on gruntjs/grunt#569 for not implementing this.

The real solution you want here is to set up a post-checkout git hook.

[jokeyrhyme]

I respect your points of view (obviously it's the only mature thing to do).

I do find it weird that no-one disagrees with this point: potentially millions of people around the world are all manually running npm install. Just imagine the collective time this would save the world if just 10 more lines were added to grunt...

[tkellen]

Git has a feature made for this express purpose: a post-checkout git hook. If you configured one, you could save yourself another step: you'll never have to type git submodule init again either.

If you don't want to go that route, you could always write another grunt-cli. The grunt command is barely more than 100 loc.

[jokeyrhyme]

Thanks for the hints. It sounds like this exactly what I need.

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