In each task that was outlined in Chapter 3, All about Grunt Plugins there was a distinctly common thread that existed between all of the plugins: the installation process. Installation of plugins is accomplished through Terminal or command line, and the syntax is very simple. As previously described, here is the common format of the task installation syntax for grunt plugins:

npm install [package name] --save-dev

The npm install command invokes the installation of a package, [package name]. Additionally, this command has an optional flag, -save-dev, which instructs the installer to save the package as a development dependency. Plugins saved as devDependencies are saved locally to the project and registered in the package.json file in the devDependencies configuration section. The plugin itself, when installed as a devDependencies configuration, will be located in your project's node-modules directory. In this section, we will be installing plugins...