angular-cli server - how to specify default port

Question

Using angular-cli with the ng serve command, how can I specify a default port so I do not need to manually pass the --port flag every time?

Answer 1

In Angular 2 cli@2.3.1,

To run a new project on the different port, one way is to specify the port while you run ng serve command.

ng serve --port 4201

or the other way, you can edit your package.json file scripts part and attached the port to your start variable like I mentioned below and then simply run "npm start"

 "scripts": {

    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve --port 4201",
    ... : ...,
    ... : ....
}

this way is much better where you don't need to define port explicitly every time.