Angular 6 Migration -.angular-cli.json to angular.json

Question

I've upgraded my project to Angular 6, and everything went fine except the conversion of .angular-cli.json file. From the guide I followed, it was said that this will convert it automatically.

npm install -g @angular/cli

npm install @angular/cli

ng update @angular/cli

However, it was not the case as I still have the old .angular-cli.json

Is there a way to do it automatically / manually?

Answer 1

Most likely there were errors in one of those commands. For me, I had to run npm install -g @angular-devkit/core first and then run the commands:

npm install -g @angular/cli  npm install @angular/cli 

In the console output of npm install @angular/cli you should see:

================================================================================ 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 ================================================================================ 

Then you obviously should run ng update @angular/cli to finish off the process.

See the Official Update Guide for additional details.