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I am seeing tutorials with NPM and Node.js that have the ng package handler. However, they run this straight from the command prompt. I am curious if I am missing something to install to run commands like
ng serve
for example, without having to preface them with
npm run
like
npm run ng serve --open
?
Thank you!
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It's not recommended to install @angular/cli globally. Some projects will use different version of angular@cli and executing ng commands will have unexpected result.
Instead, install locally into dev dependencies with:
npm install --save-dev angular@cli
or Yarn:
yarn add --dev angular@cli
After you install locally, you can setup various npm scripts to execute ng commands:
scripts: {
"dev": "ng serve"
Run the script:
npm run dev
** Please note, if you have globally installed angular@cli, running the commands mentioned above will use the local angular@cli package from node_modules/.bin.
Also, npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the npm registry. You can read about it more here
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