Prerequisites

Installing the required software

Note: the majority of these instructions are for use on a Mac. Windows instructions are included where appropriate.

Homebrew (Mac - optional)

You can install Homebrew to manage packages via the command line with:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Node

Install NodeJS either via Homebrew with the following command:

brew install node

or using the installer (on Windows). Note: this also installs npm.

Bower

If you don’t have Bower installed globally on your machine, install it via npm:

sudo npm install -g bower

Note: For Windows machines, drop the sudo, but you may have to run Powershell as Admininstrator to install the module globally.

Grunt

If you don’t have Grunt and the Grunt command line tools installed globally on your machine, install it via npm:

sudo npm install -g grunt grunt-cli

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The lazy three-liner... (sorry, Mac only)

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew install node

sudo npm i bower grunt grunt-cli -g