Yeoman custom generator - Grunt error

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Yeoman custom generator - Grunt error

Hi all

I’ve started using Yeoman to start projects - http://yeoman.io

The generators avaiable are great but I wnated create my own to fit exactly what I need.

The actual structure is fine I can run my generator and the structure I want is created.

My pronblem is with Grunt.

I just want it to watch for any changes at the moment, do a simple html validate, and open the page in the server.

This is the package.json


{
    "name" : "appname",
    "version" : "0.1.0",
    "private" : true,

    "devDependencies" : {
        "grunt" :                       "~0.4.0",
        "grunt-contrib-watch":          "*",
        "grunt-htmlhint":               "*"
    }
}

and this is the gruntfile.js


module.exports = function(grunt){

    "use strict";

		grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt');
		grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
		grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-htmlhint');

    grunt.initConfig({

        watch: {
            html: {
                files: ['index.html'],
                tasks: ['htmlhint']
            }
        },

        htmlhint: {
            build: {
                options: {
                    'tag-pair': true,
                    'tagname-lowercase': true,
                    'attr-lowercase': true,
                    'attr-value-double-quotes': true,
                    'doctype-first': true,
                    'spec-char-escape': true,
                    'id-unique': true,
                    'head-script-disabled': true,
                    'style-disabled': true
                },
                src: ['index.html']
            }
        },

				express: {
		      all: {
		        options: {
		          port: 9000,
		          hostname: '0.0.0.0',
		          bases: [__dirname],
		          livereload: true
		        }
		      }
		    },
		
				open: {
		      all: {
		        // Gets the port from the connect configuration
		        path: 'http://localhost:<%= express.all.options.port%>'
		      }
		    }

    });

    grunt.registerTask('server',   [
			'express',
	    'open'
		]);

};

If I run Yeoman with ‘yo basic’ (the name of the generator) the all the files and folders are created.

I then run ‘npm install’ to download the dependencies, which works and all the dependencies are added

If I then run ‘grunt server’ I get the error


>> Local Npm module "grunt" not found. Is it installed?
Warning: Task "express" not found. Use --force to continue.

Does anyone have any experience creating generators for Yeoman?

The documentaion for it isn’t good at all.