Using the global angular-cli in order to build my app

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I have a build process (TFS) for gated check-ins. The build does the follow:

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npm install
npm run build
npm run build:test
more stuff...

The npm install part takes 2.9 minutes mostly because it installs angular-cli. I have the angular-cli installed globally on the machine, why can't I use the global installation?

If I try to remove @angular/cli from my devDependencies, I got the error:

You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the build command after reinstall of angular-cli

Versions:

@angular/[email protected]
node 6.2.0
npm 3.8.9
Windows 2012

if I had to make a guess, I would think you probably have an older beta of angular-cli installed globally (beta.28 or earlier). The angular CLI project has changed from angular-cli to @angular/cli, and projects created with @angular/cli aren't compatible with the older releases. — Claies
– Claies, Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 15:33

Yakov Fain · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-11 18:01:43Z

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I'm not sure if you can remove the local install of @angular/cli, but I agree, this would be nice. To speed up you installs, switch from using npm to a faster package manager yarn. After installing yarn, your commands will look slightly different:

yarn install
yarn run build
yarn run build:test

But you'll definitely see the speed improvement. I blogged about Yarn here https://yakovfain.com/2016/11/06/angular-cli-speed-up-installing-dependencies-with-yarn

answered Jun 11, 2017 at 18:01

Yakov Fain

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