When to use 'npm start' and when to use 'ng serve'?

Question

ng serve serves an Angular project via a development server

 

npm start runs an ar

Answer 1

There are more than that. The executed executables are different.

npm run start

will run your projects local executable which is located in your node_modules/.bin.

ng serve

will run another executable which is global.

It means if you clone and install an Angular project which is created with angular-cli version 5 and your global cli version is 7, then you may have problems with ng build.