When you have updated Angular CLI using npm install -g @angular/cli[@version], everytime you create Angular project using the ng new command, the project is generated with Angular version corresponding to that Angular CLI version. Angular 8 is latest Angular version that we may want to use in limited number of projects at the time it has just been released. In this tutorial, we’re gonna show you 2 ways to install new Angular 8 project locally in specific folder.
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Overview
This is our current Angular CLI version:
We have 2 ways to setup new Angular project with specific Version:
– using npx => don’t need to install Angular CLI locally
– using local Angular CLI => need to generate a local folder for node_modules
Install Angular 8 locally using npx
Install npx
Run command: npm i -g npx
Setup new Angular project
Now, if we want to create Angular 8 project in a specific folder, just run the command on that folder:
npx -p @angular/cli@8.0.0-beta.2 ng new Angular8SpringBoot
You can change 8.0.0-beta.2 to your appropriate Angular CLI version. Run command ng --version on project folder, the result would be like:
Check package.json file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 | { "name": "angular8-spring-boot", "version": "0.0.0", "scripts": { "ng": "ng", "start": "ng serve", "build": "ng build", "test": "ng test", "lint": "ng lint", "e2e": "ng e2e" }, "private": true, "dependencies": { "@angular/animations": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/common": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/compiler": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/core": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/forms": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/platform-browser": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/router": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "core-js": "^2.5.4", "rxjs": "~6.4.0", "tslib": "^1.9.0", "zone.js": "~0.8.26" }, "devDependencies": { "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "~0.14.0-beta.2", "@angular/cli": "~8.0.0-beta.2", "@angular/compiler-cli": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@angular/language-service": "~8.0.0-beta.5", "@types/node": "~8.9.4", "@types/jasmine": "~3.3.8", "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.3", "codelyzer": "~4.5.0", "jasmine-core": "~2.99.1", "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.2.1", "karma": "~4.0.0", "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.2.0", "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "~2.0.1", "karma-jasmine": "~2.0.1", "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^1.4.0", "protractor": "~5.4.0", "ts-node": "~7.0.0", "tslint": "~5.11.0", "typescript": "~3.2.2" } } |
Install Angular 8 locally using local Angular CLI
Install local Angular CLI
Go to the folder that you want to generate all Angular projects with the specific version, run command:npm install @angular/cli@8.0.0-beta.2
node_modules folder will be generated.
Setup new Angular project
On the folder that you’ve installed Angular CLI, run the familiar command:ng new angular-8-foo
Now run the ng --version command on project folder, the result would be like:
