In this post, we will look at the most often used commands in an Angular project and explain them. They are quite handy in Angular apps.
- To obtain the npm version,
npm -v
- To obtain the node version,
node -v
- To obtain the Angular version,
ng v
- To obtain the Jasmine version,
jasmine -v
- To obtain the Karma version,
karma --version
- To get Angular CLI, follow these steps,
npm install @angular/cli -g npm install @angular/cli
- To install the next version of Angular CLI,
npm install @angular/cli@next
- To obtain help in the terminal,
ng help
- To create a new project in Angular,
ng new project-name
- To avoid external dependencies while creating a new project,
ng new project-name --skip-install
- To run the Angular project,
ng serve (or) npm start (or) ng serve --force
- Dry Run,
ng new project-name --dry-run
- To create a new component in the Angular Project,
ng generate component component-name ng g c component-name
- To avoid creating a new folder while creating a new component,
ng generate component component-name --flat
- To create a build,
ng build
- To make a build for a particular environment,
ng build --prod
- To run test cases,
ng test
- To run the end-to-end test,
ng e2e
- For Angular Documentation,
ng doc
- To modify the angular-cli.json configuration file,
ng set
- To make an Angular directive,
ng generate directive directive-name ng g d directive-name
- To create a service in Angular,
ng generate service service-name ng g s service-name
- To make a class,
ng generate class class-name ng g cl class-name
- To create an interface,
ng generate interface interface-name ng g i interface-name
- To make a pipe,
ng generate pipe pipe-name ng g p pipe-name
- To make enum,
ng generate enum enum-name ng g e enum-name
- To make a module,
ng generate module module-name ng g m module-name
- To generate a module specification file,
ng g m module-name --spec true -d
- To design a routing module,
ng g m module-name --routing
- To create a guard to the route,
ng g guard guard-name
- To remove node_modules,
rm -rf node_modules
- To uninstall Angular CLI,
npm uninstall --save-dev @angular/cli npm uninstall -g angular-cli @angular/cli
- To install the latest version of Angular CLI,
npm install --save-dev @angular/cli@latest
- To update Angular CLI,
ng update @angular/cli ng update @angular/core
- To clean cache,
npm cache clean
- To install TypeScript latest version,
npm install -g typescript@latest
- To install Jasmine/Karma latest version,
npm install -g karma-jasmine@latest
- To install the TypeScript version,
npm install typescript@version-number
- To install Jasmine specific version,
npm install -g jasmine@version-number
- Install the Karma-specific version.
npm install -g karma@version-number
