&gt; I&#x27;d be usually fine with that except the only way these tools work is to install them globally so they can&#x27;t coexhist even with themselves<p>This is not true, the node community just doesn&#x27;t advertise it for some reason. You can run npm install a specific version of grunt-cli and run it with .&#x2F;node_modules&#x2F;.bin&#x2F;grunt