How do you install angular-cli for windows 7

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tgrim90 · Jan 23, 2017 · Viewed 67.8k times · Source

I am trying to install angular-cli for windows. I know the command is npm install -g angular-cli, however once I run this command I then try to do ng new however I get an error saying "ng is not a recognized command" I checked the other questions on here saying that you have to add the folder to the PATH variable, however when I check in the folder I've tried to install angular-cli into I don't even see anything.

Here you can see I've installed the angular-cli using the provided command and that any use of the "ng" command registers and error:

And here you can see an empty folder with no angular-cli folders or anything for that matter:

And here you can see an empty folder with no angular-cli folders or anything for that matter

PLEASE NOTE I am very new to cmd and angular and I really have no idea what steps to take here.

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Installation of NodeJs, npm, TypeScript, AngularJS, @angular/cli on Windows 7 Professional SP 1 64-bit:

Since I have found many valuable hints scattered on various posts only after 'painful' search, here a compact compilation (not my ideas but my experience). Hope it helps.

install Node.js Windows Installer 64-bit: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ node-v6.11.0-x64.msi
If there is a (company-)proxy (installation behind firewall): configure npm against the company-proxy: open cmd window (not elevated, normally you have to be the login-user)

npm config set proxy http://Proxy.Company.com:Port (replace Proxy.Company.com:Port with your proxy-settings)

npm config set https-proxy http://Proxy.Company.com:Port (replace Proxy.Company.com:Port with your proxy-settings)

Hints: Both settings are required, ask your admins for the correct url. If you need to propagate a user/password use the following syntax:

npm config set proxy http://user:[email protected]:Port
Set npm directory for packages (npm 3.10.10 comes with Node.js but we'll update it later):

npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
Update npm to the latest version:

npm install npm@latest -g

Beware: npm update only works with the HTTPS-variant (registry https://registry.npmjs.org/). With the HTTP-setting (see below) you earn "shasum check failed".
Set npm directory for packages to the non-HTTPS-variant:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

Reason: the https-variant, which was necessary to update npm itself, does'nt work for all packages, e.g. @angular/cli@latest or angular-cli or typescript@latest either.
Install TypeScript:

npm install -g typescript@latest
Possibly update Visual Studio 2015 to Update 3 (necessary) (everything also works fine with the Community Edition Update 3): Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 Version 14.0.25422.01 Update 3 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.01055
Ensure, that Visual Studio fetches the actually installed packages: Tools/Options, left-tree/Projects and Solutions/External Web Tools, right panel, move the $(PATH) entry to the top (above the $(DevEnvDir) entries). Afterwards close Visual Studio.
Install AngularJS:

npm install angular (my version: 1.6.5)
Install Angular commandline-tool: npm install -g @angular/cli@latest (@angular/cli is the new name for angular-cli)
Check versions (in cmd window; my versions below):

node -v => v6.11.0

npm -v => 5.1.0

tsc -v => 2.4.1

ng --version => 1.2.0 (@angular/cli)
Install optional package installer for Visual Studio (see also section 'Links' below): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.PackageInstaller (...Downloads\Package Installer v2.0.101.vsix)

If something had gone wrong, restart with the following steps:

In C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming delete the directory 'npm'
In cmd window: npm cache clean or possibly: npm cache clean --force
run node-v6.11.0-x64.msi in repair-mode
continue with Item (2.).

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