Luma Child Custom Theme Grunt not copying js files

Magento 2.4.4 running on Xampp Windows 10. Luma Child Custom Theme Grunt not copying js files

When i do a normal “deploy” from cli its fine.
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

when i run grunt and visit the website i get 404 for couple of js files when i look at the directory i noticed a lot of js files missing require.js is one of them…
grunt clean && grunt exec && grunt less && grunt watch

themes.js

    vendor_theme: {
        area: 'frontend',
        name: 'vendor/vendor_theme',
        locale: 'en_US',
        files: [
            'css/styles-m',
            'css/styles-l'
        ],
        dsl: 'less'
    },