Error Local workspace file angular json could not be found

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I have travis-ci integrated with my GitHub account  https   github com pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App    When I updated  angular cli version from 1 7 4 to 6 0 0-rc 3  the build started failing with an error   Local workspace file   angular json   could not be found  Error  Local workspace file   angular json   could not be found      at WorkspaceLoader  getProjectWorkspaceFilePath   home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models workspace-loader js 37 19      at WorkspaceLoader loadWorkspace   home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models workspace-loader js 24 21      at TestCommand  loadWorkspaceAndArchitect   home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 177 32      at TestCommand  lt anonymous gt    home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 45 25      at Generator next   lt anonymous gt       at  home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 7 71     at new Promise   lt anonymous gt       at   awaiter   home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 3 12      at TestCommand initialize   home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 44 16      at  home travis build pradeep0601 Angular5-Router-App node modules  angular cli models command-runner js 100 23   package json snippet to better understand the running environment         angular cli    6 0 0-rc 3         angular compiler-cli     5 2 0         angular language-service     5 2 0         types jasmine     2 8 3         types jasminewd2     2 0 2

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I also faced same issue and i just executed below command.

ng update @angular/cli --migrate-only --from=1.6.4

It simply delete angular-cli.json and create angular.json. You can find this in logs.

Once you start execution. You will be able to see below logs in your terminal.

        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 (3599 bytes)
        UPDATE karma.conf.js (962 bytes)
        UPDATE src/tsconfig.spec.json (324 bytes)
        UPDATE package.json (1405 bytes)
        UPDATE tsconfig.json (407 bytes)
        UPDATE tslint.json (3026 bytes)

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Just run ng update  angular cli in your console  You might find some vulnerabilities after running the command  if using npm   but then just runnpm audit fix in the console to fix them  This command will scan the project for any vulnerabilities and it will also fix compatibility issues by installing updates to these dependencies  If you do not wish to auto fix these vulnerabilities immediately  you can perform a Dry Run  by running npm audit fix --dry-run -json in the console  This will give you an idea of what the command npm audit fix will do  in the form of json in the console

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For me the problem was because of global  angular cli version and  angular compiler-cli were different  Look into package json         angular cli    6 0 0-rc 3     angular compiler-cli     5 2 0         And if they don   t match  update or downgrade one of them

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I was trying to set my Ionic 4 app to run as a pwa  When I run the command   ng add  angular pwa      got the error message  After some try and error I discovered that when my project was created the start command was wrong  I was using an Ionic 3 version   ionic start myApp tabs --type ionic-angular   And the correct is   ionic start myApp tabs --type angular   with no  ionic-  in type  This solved the error

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Uninstall the old version of Angular cli  and install Angular CLI global   Update Angular cli global package to the next version    angular compiler-cli     6 0 0   npm uninstall -g  angular cli npm cache verify npm install -g  angular cli next   Generate a new project and default application by running the following command   ng new my-project cd my-project ng serve

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Desktop   ng serve   Local workspace file   angular json   could not be found   Error  Local workspace file   angular json   could not be found   at WorkspaceLoader  getProjectWorkspaceFilePath   usr lib node modules  angular cli models workspace-loader js 37 19  at WorkspaceLoader loadWorkspace   usr lib node modules  angular cli models workspace-loader js 24 21  at ServeCommand  loadWorkspaceAndArchitect   usr lib node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 180 32  at ServeCommand  lt anonymous gt    usr lib node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 47 25  at Generator next   lt anonymous gt   at  usr lib node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 7 71 at new Promise   lt anonymous gt   at   awaiter   usr lib node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 3 12  at ServeCommand initialize   usr lib node modules  angular cli models architect-command js 46 16  at Object  lt anonymous gt    usr lib node modules  angular cli models command-runner js 87 23       This is because I haven t choose the Angular project directory    It should be like         Desktop angularproject   ng serve

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For me  the issue was that I have an angular project folder inside a rails project folder  and I ran all the angular update commands in the rails parent folder rather than the actual angular folder

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If all sorts of updating commando s won t do it  Try deleting package-lock json  And then run npm install  Did the trick for me after going through tons of update commando s

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I had the same problem and found that there was no package json in my project  but only the package-lock json   I then    restored the package json from source control uninstalled the global and local angular-cli versions  like the instruction says  followed the standard upgrade procedure      and all worked out fine  Took a while to figure it out  but that did it for me

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For people who have simply cloned a project and trying to run it  you need to run npm install first  I totally forgot to run this and was simply running ng serve before installing node modules

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Well  I faced the same issue as soon as I updated my angular cli version   Earlier I was using 1 7 4 and just now I upgraded it to angular cli 6 0 8   To update Angular Cli global      npm uninstall -g angular-cli npm cache clean  npm install -g  angular cli latest   To update Angular Cli dev    npm uninstall --save-dev angular-cli npm install --save-dev  angular cli latest npm install   To fix audit issues after npm install   npm audit fix   To fix the issue related to  angular json     ng update  angular cli --migrate-only --from 1 7 4

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Try using the below command   ng update  angular cli --migrate-only --from 1 7 4   It will perform the below   Updating karma configuration Updating configuration Removing old config file   angular-cli json  Writing config file  angular json    Pls note that the above command should be run in the folder where you have file  angular-cli json and it will be then replaced by angular json

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I was having this error message inside a docker container  I resolved it adding   WORKDIR  usr src   to Dockerfile

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Just check your directory  you must run  ng serve   on the same directory where you have created the project   So  first enter in your project directory

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I was getting the same error messages  It was a silly mistake on my end  I was not running ng serve in the directory where my Angular project is  Make sure you are in the correct directory  project directory  before running this command

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It works for me   Delete folder node modules  Run command   npm install    If it does not work for the first time  repeat this 2 or 3 times  Its funny but it works for me

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I just had the same problem   It s related to release v6 0 0-rc 2  https   github com angular angular-cli releases      New configuration format  The new file can be found at angular json  but  angular json is also accepted   Running ng update on a CLI 1 7 project will move you to the new configuration    I needed to execute   ng update  angular cli --migrate-only --from 1 7 4   This removed  angular-cli json and created angular json   If this leads to your project using 1 7 4  install v6 locally   npm install --save-dev  angular cli v6 0 0-rc 4   And try once again to update your project with   ng update  angular cli --migrate-only --from 1 7 4

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Check out this link to migrate from Angular 5 2 to 6   https   update angular io   Upgrading to version 8 9 worked for me

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With recent version  without --migrate-only I got the repo updated   I did ng update  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             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  3684 bytes  UPDATE karma conf js  1040 bytes  UPDATE src tsconfig spec json  322 bytes  UPDATE package json  1340 bytes  UPDATE tslint json  3140 bytes

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Check your folder structure where you are executing the command  you should run the command  ng serve  where there should be a angular json file in the structure   angular json file will be generated by default when we run the command  npm install -g   angular cli  ng new Project name then cd project folder then  run ng serve  it worked for me

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I had the same problem  and what I did that works for me was    Inside package json file  update the Angular CLI version to my desired one    devDependencies             angular cli     6 0 8            Delete the node modules folder  in order to clean the project before update the dependencies with   npm install  ng update  angular cli  Try to build again my project  the last and successful attempt   ng build --prod

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If you don t know the version  current project has been made  you can omit --from command and type --migrate-only     ng update  angular cli --migrate-only

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For me what worked was creating a new Angular project and just copied the angular json file in the project that had a problem due to the fact that the angular json file was missing

[angular-cli] Error: Local workspace file ('angular.json') could not be found

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