How to NOT install local bower & grunt?

[ghost]

A question: I have bower & grunt installed globally on my server. What would be the best approach to not install them locally, to minimize disk space usage?

[pmccauley]

I would have a local development server and then only deploy the theme files not the node and bower files, or even scss. For example I have a local WP that I use as dev. I then would setup a separate grunt command to push to the test / production server.

Other than that I would use an ftp and only deploy the files, folders you need for the theme.

[ghost]

@pmccauley , thanks for your answer. Not quite what I was looking for. What I meant was how to run npm install without installing bower & grunt as local dependencies.

[Aetles]

You could look at the changes that where made in 85e631d where the global dependencies where removed.

[ghost]

@Aetles, that's what I thought.. So it looks I have to install the 80 megabytes of node_modules for every theme development project. It was just mere 24 megabytes before the global dependencies were removed.

[Aetles]

Yeah, that's a drawback but I still think it's better than using global installations. John Albin Wilkins wrote a convincing article about why installing packages globally is not recommended.

[ghost]

Ok, thanks, good read, I'm convinced, though I've never had any problems with global installations .