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Asked: 2026-06-15T14:17:33+00:00

Achtung! The accepted answer answered my question at the time, but is now outdated.

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Achtung!

The accepted answer answered my question at the time, but is now outdated. Back then grunt-cli used grunt, but with another branch.
The not-accepted answers will tell you how it is today.

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What is the relations and differences between grunt-cli and grunt?
It seems to be the same thing, but different versions.

Grunt

https://npmjs.org/package/grunt

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt

Grunt-cli

https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-cli

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/devel/docs/getting_started.md

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re correct, the two projects exist because of different versions of grunt.

    grunt-cli is used for grunt version 0.4 (and has an explicit dependency on 0.4), which as of this writing is in alpha development. grunt-0.4 splits the command line interface (grunt-cli) from the API libraries.

    The “Getting Started” documentation you found is in the devel branch of the grunt repository, which will be the 0.4 release.

    If you’re using grunt 0.3.x, then you don’t need to install grunt-cli.

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