You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the build command after reinstall of angular-cli

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grim picture grim · Aug 25, 2016 · Viewed 148.5k times · Source

I had the latest angular-cli installed globally and my project was building successfully.

While reading a suggested solution for another issue, (https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/917) I uninstalled the global angular-cli and installed it as a dev-dependency.

That other issue wasn't solved so I uninstalled the dev-dependency and reinstalled angular-cli globally once again. Now when I try to do an ng build I'm getting the error:

You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the build command

My angular-cli version did not change. Why isn't my project being recognised as an angular-cli project??

Answer

Oswaldo Salazar picture Oswaldo Salazar · Feb 25, 2017

Same as John Pankowicz answer, but in my case I had to run 

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

for the versions to match.

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