Angular 6 Migration -.angular-cli.json to angular.json

Question

I\'ve upgraded my project to Angular 6, and everything went fine except the conversion of .angular-cli.json file. From the guide I followed, it was said that th

Answer 1

Most likely there were errors in one of those commands. For me, I had to run npm install -g @angular-devkit/core first and then run the commands:

npm install -g @angular/cli

npm install @angular/cli

In the console output of npm install @angular/cli you should see:

================================================================================
The Angular CLI configuration format has been changed, and your existing configuration can
be updated automatically by running the following command:

  ng update @angular/cli
================================================================================

Then you obviously should run ng update @angular/cli to finish off the process.

See the Official Update Guide for additional details.

Answer 2

Try running "ng update @angular/cli" twice it will update angular-cli.json to angular.json

UPDATE:

if getting errors like this:

ERROR: The specified command update is invalid, for available options see ng-help.

then you need to run 2 commands as follows

1. npm install --save-dev @angular/cli@latest.
2. ng update @angular/cli

this will automatically create angular.json, delete .angular-cli.json and update karma.conf.js, src/tsconfig.spec.json, package.json, and tslint.json