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I am currently working on a theme that I have used and have been changing the templates and styles following the detailed guides over at the Magento2 site.

However, I am really struggling to make progress and am not quite sure what I am doing wrong.

From my understanding of the documentation I can use server side compilation and Grunt to make the changes necessary to progress my developments.

This sounds great, so I installed Grunt and that is working fine, but my issue is that I keep getting loads of 404 errors around pub/static files not existing.

This is strange as from my understanding these files should be generated automatically.

What seems to work is when I run:

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_GB

But, I don't want to do that each time and it also means that when I run:

grunt watch:theme_name

No changes are detected.

A couple of notes to try and help understand where I have come from:

  • I am in developer mode
  • I have cleared the contents of var and pub/static
  • I am on Magento 2.0.7 updated via composer
  • I have run php bin/magento setup:upgrade
  • I also get the same 404 errors when I access the admin area
  • I have run grunt refresh, grunt exec:all and grunt less to compile all less, but still have the same issues
  • Some digging around seemed to point to symlinks, but I have not been able to work it out

I am sure there is one small thing I am missing or not doing. If anyone could help that would be great as I am tearing my hair out.

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Run php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy to generate files for admin. After you run grunt clean or grunt exec pub/static files are deleted.

Also make sure you have right file permissions for pub/static.

What I'm doing on my localhost(windows 7) to develop a theme is following:

  • if I'm getting erros in browser console for missing files I execute php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy locale_locale
  • run grunt exec:my_theme
  • run grunt watch:my_theme

If I'm adding some css files to theme I need to re-do static-content:deploy again in order to move this files to pub/static

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  • thanks for the advice. It looks like the step to deploy again when adding a less file has done the trick and now the 'grunt watch' task is working. Thanks for the tips.
    – Adam Stacey
    Jun 1, 2016 at 14:03
  • @AdamStacey you're welcome ;)
    – Vasilii Burlacu
    Jun 2, 2016 at 6:59
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Run your console as administrator, I never use deploy.

Grunt clean Grunt exec:themename Grunt less:themename or Grunt watch

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