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I was able to get it working with a clean install of Node.js version 0.8.21 with NVM (Node Version Manager).

Try a clean install with NVM and Node.js version 0.8.21 to isolate the problem as much as possible.

If you haven't setup NVM already, see https://github.com/creationix/nvm

With NVM, install Node.js version 0.8.21 by running

nvm install 0.8.21

You should make a default alias to the latest Node.js version by running

nvm alias default 0.8.21

Make sure you are using Node.js version 0.8.21 by running either

nvm use 0.8.21

nvm use default

Now you should check you are using Node.js version 0.8.21 by running

node -v

That should output

v0.8.21

Also, check your NPM (Node Package Manager) version by running

npm -v

which should output

1.2.11

If all is good so far, let's install Tower globally by running

npm install tower -g

Next, install Grunt version 0.3.17 globally by running

npm install grunt@0.3.17 -g

Later versions of Grunt are not working with Tower.

Also, install CoffeeScript version 1.4.0 by running

npm install coffee-script@1.4.0 -g

At the moment, only CoffeeScript version 1.4.0 is working well with Tower.

Check your Tower version by running

tower -V

which should output

0.4.2-25

Now, install MongoDB with brew if you haven't installed it yet

brew install mongodb

Run the MongoDB server by running

mongod

After all that installation, let's get started with your first app.

In your terminal, generate your app by running

tower new app

Edit your app's package.json like we discussed earlier.

In your app's package.json you need to change lines:

"grunt-contrib-less": ">= 0.3.0",
"grunt-contrib-stylus": ">= 0.3.0",
"grunt-contrib": ">= 0.2.0",

"grunt-contrib-less": "~0.3.2",
"grunt-contrib-stylus": "~0.3.1",
"grunt-contrib": "~0.3.0",

The updated package.json should look almost exactly like this without my name:

{
  "name": "app",
  "private": true,
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "",
  "homepage": "http://User.github.com/app",
  "main": "./server.js",
  "subdomain": "app",
  "author": "'Binh Tran' <btbinhtran@gmail.com>",
  "keywords": [
    "node"
  ],
  "maintainers": [{
    "name": "Binh Tran",
    "email": "btbinhtran@gmail.com"
  }],
  "contributors": [

  ],
  "licenses": [
    {
      "type": "MIT",
      "url": "http://mths.be/mit"
    }
  ],
  "bugs": {
    "url": "https://github.com/User/app/issues"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/User/app.git"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">= 0.6.0",
    "npm": ">= 1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "async": ">= 0.1.22",
    "coffee-script": "1.3.3",
    "mongodb": ">= 1.1.10",
    "coffeecup": ">= 0.3.17",
    "socket.io": ">= 0.8.7",
    "socket.io-client": ">= 0.9.5",
    "tower": ">= 0.4.2",
    "which": ">= 1.0.5"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
    "nodemailer": ">= 0.3.28",
    "kue": ">= 0.3.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "chokidar": "~0.4.0",
    "stylus": ">= 0.29.0",
    "Faker": ">= 0.1.3",
    "less": ">= 1.2.2",
    "uglify-js": ">= 1.1.1",
    "mocha": ">= 0.12.1",
    "chai": ">= 0.3.3",
    "sinon": ">= 1.3.1",
    "knox": ">= 0.0.11",
    "gzip": ">= 0.1.0",
    "cli-table": ">= 0.0.1",
    "grunt-contrib-less": "~0.3.2",
    "grunt-contrib-stylus": "~0.3.1",
    "grunt-contrib": "~0.3.0",
    "superagent": ">= 0.9.5",
    "wrench": ">= 1.3.8",
    "fibers": "~0.6.8",
    "ejs": ">= 0.6.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha $(find test -name \"*Test.coffee\")",
    "prepublish": "npm prune; rm -rf node_modules/*/{test,example,bench}*",
    "start": "node server.js -e production"
  },
  "tower": {
    "stylesheets": "styl",
    "scripts": "coffee",
    "templates": "coffee"
  }
}

Then run

npm install

Next, start your app server

node server

Then, in a second terminal, start the watcher. This will automatically compile files when they change:

cd app
cake watch

Go to localhost:3000 in your browser and you should get something like this expected

tower-archive / tower

Grunt problems #388