How to create angular 5 project in angular cli 6.0.1

Question

My angular cli version is 6.0.1 and node version is 8.11.1.

How to create or add a new project of angular 5.

If I use ng new [project_name] then the project is downloading that is of angular 6.

Answer 1

I stumbled upon this scenario too.
Here is my solution to it.

Unfortunately we are at the CLI's mercy, as the best way to create a new Angular project scaffolding.
Considering ng new {app_name} does not support a version flag.
Our aim would be to get the right CLI version installed.

The following steps helped me workaround this:

1. Create a new folder: mkdir ng-5-cli && cd ng-5-cli
2. Initialise NPM npm init
3. Install older Angular CLI: npm i @angular/[email protected] --save-dev
4. For some reason now the ng compiler assumes this is a angular project directory and does not allow running ng new here.
5. Step out of the current directory: cd ..
6. Use the absolute path to Angular cli in the directory from step #1.

For example /ng-5-cli/node_modules/.bin/ng new some-ng5-app

This should create a new application with Angular version 5.x .

You can always install other cli versions and create custom softlinks for them to use in future.

Answer 2

I have found a good explanation and the steps how to do -

https://blog.angularindepth.com/angular-5-or-angular-6-yes-please-d71b08b5e59b

1) Install Angular 6 CLI globally:

npm install -g @angular/cli@6

2) Create a folder called ng5 to house all of your new Angular 5 applications:

md ng5
cd ng5

3) In your ng5 folder create a new local npm application by using:

npm init -y

4) Install Angular 5 CLI locally using:

npm install @angular/cli@1

5) Now you MUST delete the local package.json file. If you don’t, Angular CLI will complain when you try use ng new. This is because it will think you are trying to create a new application inside an existing Angular CLI application.

6) Create your new Angular 5 application:

ng new my-ng5-app