These tools are not required to run TAO, but can be helpful for client side development.

Grunt

Grunt helps you to automate tasks like require.js optimization, SASS compiling, test running, code linting, etc.

Grunt runs on node.js, so you need node.js installed (node >= 4.0.0) and running.

• For Linux user, you could install it easily node from a native package using nodesource

  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• If you want node only for your user, you can install it using nvm

  curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.1/install.sh | bash nvm install v6.2.1 nvm alias default v6.2.1

• Then to install and set up Grunt :

  cd tao/views/build npm install

Then you should be able to see available grunt tasks from the tao/views/build directory:

grunt --help