Creating project with angular-cli takes a long time

Question

I am using angular-cli to scaffold a new Angular2 project with ng new project_name. It takes a long time to complete, as it downloads all dependencies each time ng new is run. Is there a way to create subsequent new projects without having to re-download all the dependencies?

Answer 1

You can use ng new project_name --skip-install or ng init project_name --skip-install to not download all the additional packages right away. You could then copy the node_modules directory from an existing project template, and finally do an npm install or yarn install to make sure everything is happy, depending on your package manager.

Previous versions use ng new project_name --skip-npm or ng init project_name --skip-npm

Answer 2

It is by far faster to use:

ng new myProject --skip-install=true cd myProject npm install