Job name “..getProjectMetadata” does not exist

Question

I updated my angular to v9 and when I try to go back in v8, I receive this error. I have already tried the following:

• uninstall -global angular/cli
• un

Answer 1

Instead of deleting the whole node_modules folders, just rename it and try

npm install 
sudo npm install --unsafe-perm //for macOS

Please find below my angular packages versions -

"@angular-devkit/build-angular": "0.802.0",
"@angular-devkit/core": "8.2.0",
"@angular/animations": "8.2.0",
"@angular/cli": "8.2.0",
"@angular/common": "8.2.0",
"@angular/compiler": "8.2.0",
"@angular/compiler-cli": "8.2.0",
"@angular/core": "8.2.0",