How to Check Installed Angular CLI Version

How to Check Installed Angular CLI Version

In this quick tutorial, we'll see how to check the currently-installed Angular CLI version and update it to the latest Angular 9 globally.

Step 1 - Checking Angular CLI Version

In the first step, we'll check for the current version of Angular CLI installed on our local development machine. Open a new command-line interface and run one of the following commands:

$ ng --version
$ ng v
$ npm list --global --depth 0

The ng --version command outputs the details of the installed Angular CLI version and the versions of the Angular packages:

Angular CLI: 8.3.19
Node: 10.16.3
OS: win32 ia32
Angular:
...

Package                      Version
------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect    0.803.19
@angular-devkit/core         8.3.19
@angular-devkit/schematics   8.3.19
@schematics/angular          8.3.19
@schematics/update           0.803.19
rxjs                         6.4.0

The npm list --global --depth 0 prints a list of all the packages installed on our machine at the top level. This is the output in my machine: 

+-- @angular/[email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
`-- [email protected]

The ng v command is equivalent to ng --version.

So we have @angular/cli v8.3.19 installed, now how we can update it to the latest Angular 9 .

Step 2 - Updating Angular CLI to Angular 9 Version

To update the Angular CLI to the latest version 9, first you need to update to the latest Angular 8:

$ npm install --no-save @angular/cli@^8.3.19

After that run the following command to update Angular CLI to Angular 9

 $ ng update @angular/cli @angular/core --next

Since Angular 9 is in RC version, you'll need to use the --next flag.

Step 3 - Updating Angular CLI Version Globally

To update Angular CLI version globally in your system use the following commands

$ npm uninstall -g angular-cli
$ npm cache verify
$ npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

You can also install a specific version using the following command:

$ npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

Here I'm installing Angular CLI v9.0.0-rc.2, the latest version as of this writing.

This is the output of ng v:


Angular CLI: 9.0.0-rc.2
Node: 10.16.3
OS: win32 ia32
Angular:
...

Package                      Version
------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect    0.900.0-rc.2
@angular-devkit/core         9.0.0-rc.2
@angular-devkit/schematics   9.0.0-rc.2
@schematics/angular          9.0.0-rc.2
@schematics/update           0.900.0-rc.2
rxjs                         6.5.3