Why is the grunt task not running?

Question

JavaScript

Hey!
Content of Gruntfile.js :

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  require("load-grunt-tasks")(grunt);

  console.log('=====> 1');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-lintspaces');
  console.log('=====> 2');

  var config = {
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON("package.json"),

    lintspaces: {
      codestyle: {
        src: [
          "**/*.js"
        ],
        options: {
          editorconfig: ".editorconfig"
        }
      }
    }
  };

  grunt.registerTask("linter", ["lintspaces:codestyle"]);

  grunt.initConfig(config);
};

I run the grunt linter command I get the following error:

>grunt linter
=====> 1
>> Local Npm module "grunt-lintspaces" not found. Is it installed?
=====> 2
Warning: Task "lintspaces:codestyle" not found. Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.

The /node_modules/ folder is not located inside the project folder, but one level higher. I take it this is the problem? I don't want /node_modules/ to be in the project folder. Can this be bypassed somehow?

Answer 1

What is the problem with the node_modules folder in the project? This is the common practice.
From the loadNpmTask documentation:

Load tasks from the specified Grunt plugin. This plugin must be installed locally via npm, and must be relative to the Gruntfile.