How to Create a specific version of Angular Project using CLI?

Question

My npm version is 5.5.1 and angular cli version is 6.2.1. When I try to create a new project using the command ng new Project_name then it is creating the latest version of angular (in my case it is creating Angular version ^6.1.0). But I want Angular4. My question is how to create this Angualr2/4/5 (specific version instead of the latest version)? I don't think changing the version value in package.json will help in my case because there are some differences in the older versions and the latest 6 version (like the name of one file has been changed from angular-cli.json to anguar.json and not only name but content is also changed.) I've also raised the same question in Angular-cli Github site as well. click here

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Using CLI you can not create specific angular version.

But you can install specific version of angular CLI into particular folder.

For Example :

First create new folder inside any drive. I'm going to create demo folder in D drive. Ex: d:\projects\demo.

Then find this folder inside Command Prompt(cmd) or just type cmd into your created folder addressbar in windows and hit enter.

Now type angular specific version command : npm install @angular/[email protected] for angular 5. and use similar command for other version.

After complete the installation, just create new angular project into your specific folder that you recently install angular. Ex: d:\projects\demo\.

Now create angular project using the command ng new Project_name and it will create your specific angular version Project.

In my example it will create angular 5 project.

Answer 2

You can use npx command which is Node.js package runner, by running packages directly from the registry without effecting the globally installed package registry (-g).

@next will automatically install the latest preview version from Angular repo (now days refers to version 9 rc), like so:

npx @angular/cli@next new Angular9Project 

Otherwise, you can provide the specific version:

npx @angular/cli@7 new Angular7Project 

NPX comes bundled with NPM version 5.2+