Global Angular CLI version greater than local version

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When running ng serve I get this warning about my global CLI version being greater than my local version  I don t notice any issues from this warning  but I was wondering if the two versions should be in sync  Also  Is it necessary to have a local version if you have a global version    The warning      Your global Angular CLI version  1 1 1  is greater than your local version  1 0 6   The local Angular CLI version is used

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To answer one of the questions  it is necessary to have both a global and local install for the tools to work   If you try to run ng serve on an application without the local install of the CLI  global install only   you will get the following error      You have to be inside an Angular CLI project in order to use the serve command    It will also print this message   Please take the following steps to avoid issues   npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest    Run that npm command to update the CLI locally  and avoid the warning that you are getting   Other question  It looks like they do not have to be in sync  but it s probably best that they are in order to avoid any unusual behavior with the tool  or any inconsistencies with the code the tool generates    Why do we need both the global install  and a local install   The global install is needed to start a new application  The ng new  lt app-name gt  command is run using the global installation of the CLI  In fact  if you try to run ng new while inside the folder structure of an existing CLI application  you get this lovely error      You cannot use the new command inside an Angular CLI project    Other commands that can be run from the global install are ng help  ng get set with the --global option  ng version  ng doc  and ng completion   The local install of the CLI is used after an application has been built  This way  when new versions of the CLI are available  you can update your global install  and not affect the local install  This is good for the stability of a project  Most ng commands only make sense with the local version  like lint  build and serve  etc   According to the CLI GitHub readme  to update the CLI you must update the global and local package  However  I have used the CLI where the global and local version vary without any trouble so far  If I ever run across an error related to having the global and local CLI versions out of sync  I will post that here

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Two ways to solve this global and local angular CLI version issue  1  Keep a specific angular-cli version for both environments  2  Goto latest angular-cli version for both environments   1  Specific angular-cli version   First  find out which angular version you want to keep on the global and local environment   ng --version   for example  here we keeping local angular CLI version 8 3 27  So  we have to change the global version also on 8 3 27  use cmd   npm install --save-dev  angular cli 8 3 27 -g   here   -g  flag for a set global angular-cli version   2  Goto latest angular version for both CLI environment   npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest -g   npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest

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this should solve the issue    ng update  angular cli  angular core

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This is how I fixed it  in Visual Studio Code s terminal  First cache clean npm cache clean --force  Then updated cli ng update  angular cli  If any module missing after this  use below command npm install

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This is how I solved the issue     Copy and run these commands  ng --version npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest ng --version

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First find out the global angular-cli version by running   ng --version   The above code will show what version is the global and local angular-cli versions   If you want the global and local angular cli to be same you can just do  npm install --save-dev  angular cli 1 7 4   where 1 7 4 is your global angular-cli version   Then if you run ng serve --open your code should run

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In my case I just used this command into project   ng update  angular cli

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You just need to update the AngularCli  npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest

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This works for me  it will update local version to latest  npm uninstall --save-dev angular-cli npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest npm install   to verify version    ng --version

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npm uninstall --save-dev angular-cli npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest   Your existing configuration can be updated automatically by running the following command   ng update  angular cli   or   npm install

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Update Angular CLI for a workspace  Local   npm install --save -dev  angular cli latest   Note  Make sure to install the global version using the command with    -g    is if it installed properly   npm install -g  angular cli latest   Run Update command to get a list of all dependencies required to be upgraded  ng update     Next Run update command as below for each individual Angular core package  ng update  angular cli  angular core   However  I had to add       force    and       allow-dirty    flags command additionally to fix all other pending issues   ng update  angular cli  angular core --allow-dirty --force

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npm install --save-dev  angular-devkit build-angular - did helped ng update  angular cli   -  did create angular json and other updates   Collecting installed dependencies    Found 58 dependencies       Executing migrations for package   angular cli                 Updating karma configuration             Updating configuration             Removing old config file   angular-cli json              Writing config file  angular json              Some configuration options have been changed  please make sure to update any  npm scripts which you may have modified  DELETE  angular-cli json CREATE angular json  4394 bytes  CREATE browserslist  429 bytes  UPDATE karma conf js  993 bytes  UPDATE public tsconfig spec json  295 bytes  UPDATE package json  2618 bytes  UPDATE tsconfig json  437 bytes  UPDATE tslint json  3135 bytes  UPDATE public polyfills ts  587 bytes  UPDATE public tsconfig app json  199 bytes  npm WARN  angular core 5 2 9 requires a peer of zone js  0 8 4 but none is installed  You must install peer dependencies yourself

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I m not fluent in English  but if I understand the problem  is it that locally in the project you have an older version of CLI than globally   And would you like to use this global newer instead of the local older one   If so  a very simple method is enough to run  in the project directory npm link  angular cli  more in the subject on the page  https   docs npmjs com cli link

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It is caused because global and local angular versions are different  To update global angular version  first you need to run the following command in command prompt or vs code terminal npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest  After that if there are any vulnerability found then run the following command to fix them npm audit fix

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Run the following Command  npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest  After running the above command the console might popup the below message       The Angular CLI configuration format has been changed  and your   existing configuration can be updated automatically by running the   following command    ng update  angular cli

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npm uninstall -g  angular cli npm cache verify npm install -g  angular cli latest   Then in your Local project package   rm -rf node modules dist  npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest npm i  ng update  angular cli  ng update  angular core npm install --save-dev  angular-devkit build-angular   Was getting below error  Error  Unexpected end of JSON input Unexpected end of JSON input Above steps helped from this post Can  39 t update angular to version 6

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There is another way to avoid the global installation to create a new application  In my case I m using Angular 9 but the customer requires Angular 8    create an empty directories mkdir angular-8-cli mkdir my-angular-8-project    init empty npm project cd angular-8-cli npm init -y    install local angular 8 cli npm i  angular cli 8    go to your angular 8 project cd    my-angular-8-project    use previously installed angular 8 cli to create a new angular 8 project    angular-8-cli node modules  bin ng new my-angular-8-project --directory

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if you upgraded your Angular Version  you need to change the version of  angular-devkit build-angular  inside your package json  from your old version to the new angular build version upgraded  I had upgraded to Angular 10  so i needed to go to https   www npmjs com package  angular-devkit build-angular and check which is my version according to Angular 10  In my case  i founded that the version needs to be 0 1001 7  so i changed my old version to this version in my package json and run npm --save install  That was enough

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Just do these things  npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest npm audit fix npm audit fix --force

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