Grails 3 accessing node_modules

Starting on a Grails 3 app and trying to use a node plugin. My custom javascript is located under grails-app/assets/javascripts but when I run gradle build it installs the node_modules folder under my root project directory. This folder has all my JS libraries and I'm unable to access them from my within grails-app/assets/javascripts.

Is there a way to install node_modules under grails-app? Do I need to specify the directory in my build.gradle?

Here's my node and grunt plugins in my build.gradle.

classpath "com.moowork.gradle:gradle-node-plugin:0.12" classpath "com.moowork.gradle:gradle-grunt-plugin:0.12"

apply plugin:"com.moowork.node" apply plugin:"com.moowork.grunt"

via Andrew