How to Create a specific version of Angular Project using CLI?

My npm version is 5.5.1 and angular cli version is 6.2.1. When I try to create a new project using the command ng new Project_name then it is creating the latest version of angular (in my case it is creating Angular version ^6.1.0). But I want Angular4. My question is how to create this Angualr2/4/5 (specific version instead of the latest version)? I don't think changing the version value in package.json will help in my case because there are some differences in the older versions and the latest 6 version (like the name of one file has been changed from angular-cli.json to anguar.json and not only name but content is also changed.) I've also raised the same question in Angular-cli Github site as well. click here

Thanks in advance!!

Solution 1:

Using CLI you can not create specific angular version.

But you can install specific version of angular CLI into particular folder.

For Example :

First create new folder inside any drive. I'm going to create demo folder in D drive. Ex: d:\projects\demo.

Then find this folder inside Command Prompt(cmd) or just type cmd into your created folder addressbar in windows and hit enter.

Now type angular specific version command : npm install @angular/[email protected] for angular 5. and use similar command for other version.

After complete the installation, just create new angular project into your specific folder that you recently install angular. Ex: d:\projects\demo\.

Now create angular project using the command ng new Project_name and it will create your specific angular version Project.

In my example it will create angular 5 project.

Solution 2:

You can use npx command which is Node.js package runner, by running packages directly from the registry without effecting the globally installed package registry (-g).

@next will automatically install the latest preview version from Angular repo (now days refers to version 9 rc), like so:

npx @angular/cli@next new Angular9Project

Otherwise, you can provide the specific version:

npx @angular/cli@7 new Angular7Project

NPX comes bundled with NPM version 5.2+

Solution 3:

The Easy Way: example:npm install -g @angular/cli@6 here the -g flag tells npm to do this install globally. The 6 on the end tells npm that I want the latest available version 6.

if I want to create a new application for Angular 5 I do this :

> npm install -g @angular/cli@1
> ng new my-ng5-app

Remember, Angular CLI was version 1.7 for Angular 5.

if I want to create a new application for Angular 6 I do this :

> npm install -g @angular/cli@6
> ng new my-ng6-app

if I want to create a new application for Angular 7 I do this :

> npm install -g @angular/cli@7
> ng new my-ng7-app

I hope it would be helpful for you thanks....!

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Solution 4:

this should work Use a package called npx npm i -g npx and when you need to create an angular project use this command the first time npx -p @angular/cli ng new hello-world-project after that you can use normal commands to work like ng g c abc

Solution 5:

Create a package.json file then define the angular version you want to install then run npm install it will create project in the required version irrespective of the global angular cli