Angular2 cli hangs while creating a new app

Question

I am trying to create a new Angular2 app using

ng new myAppName

This hangs on the line

/ Installing packages for tooling via npm   

Its been sitting there for about an hour.

The previous time this happend I killed the process and tried re-running

ng new xxx

That failed because angular cli had some reference to the app name somewhere and thats whay I had to choose a new app name.

How do I get around this?

Answer 1

I was having the same issue. I resolved by using yarn. Follow below steps

1. Install yarn through npm using the below command

   npm install yarn --global

2. Create your application using ng new but skip installing packages using the below command. You can install them manually using yarn

   ng new project-name --skip-install

3. cd project-name

4. yarn install This will install your dependencies super-fast