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fumeng
fumeng

Reputation: 1820

Do I need Angular CLI to develop Angular apps?

Just joined a project where they're using Angular and I can see in the package.json file these dependencies:

"@angular/common": "~8.0.0",
"@angular/compiler": "~8.0.0",
"@angular/core": "~8.0.0",
"@angular/forms": "^8.0.3",
"@angular/platform-browser": "~8.0.0",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "~8.0.0",
"@angular/router": "~8.0.0",

But if I type in ng -v then I get a command not found error. I'm guessing it's because I don't have the Angular CLI installed. Do I need it? Seems like I don't. What will I be unable to do without having the Angular CLI package installed?

PS - I'm using NVM.

Thanks for any helpful info.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1044

Answers (1)

Oded BD
Oded BD

Reputation: 3276

No, you don't need it, but it is good to create component and modules fast with ng g option and building or serving the project.

To fix your error of running ng -v you need to install angular-cli globally, like that: npm install -g angular-cli

If you want to use your local angular-cli, you can run this: npm run-script ng -v and you will see the local angular-cli version instead of the global

Upvotes: 3

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