How to install Angular CLI locally (without the -g flag)

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Gil Epshtain picture Gil Epshtain · Jan 6, 2018 · Viewed 38.7k times · Source

I've just started working with Angular and with Angular-CLI and I've seen that, according to the documentation, I need to install $ npm install -g @angular/cli with the -g (global) flag.

However I would like to have Angular-CLI installed locally with the rest of my node_modules packages. This way, when I've download my project from git, I could simply run $ npm install (for installing all the dependencies in my package.json).

I try to create a new project by running $ npm init and then run $ npm i @angular/cli -D (-D is the same as --save-dev). But then when I run $ ng new project-name a new sub directory was created with a separate node_modules directory.

Answer

Jessy picture Jessy · May 16, 2018

As some of the comments suggest, you can have a local and global version of angular cli on your system.

To be able to access your local version instead of global (lets say you have a different version installed locally then your global install) use npm run-script ng

for example npm run-script ng generate component SomeCoolComponent

check out this answer on github to a similar question: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/5955#issuecomment-320273493

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