Angular-cli: ng new my_project fails

Created on 2 May 2018 · 9Comments · Source: angular/angular-cli

Versions

Angular CLI: 6.0.0-rc.9
Node: 10.0.0
OS: darwin x64

Repro steps

install next version of @angular/cli
Create new project with ng new my_project
See error message

Observed behavior

$ cd Programmation/Angular/
$ ng new my_project
This command can not be run inside of a CLI project.

Desired behavior

Can create and generate new project with command-line

Mention any other details that might be useful (optional)

Folder where I want to create the new project isn't an Angular project, only my root folder of all my Angular projects.
All is working fine with @angular/[email protected] and fails with others next versions rc.7, rc.8 and rc.9

Source

akanass

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Most helpful comment

@njl07 Do you have a .angular.json file in your users home dir? At some point it looks like this global config file was renamed .angular-config.json and having the old .angular.json present above the directory you're trying to create makes the CLI think you're already inside an angular project.

Zyzle on 2 May 2018

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abidev on 2 May 2018

Same here

CLI 6 RC9
OS Ubuntu 16
Node 8&9
npm 5&6

avatsaev on 2 May 2018

Zyzle on 2 May 2018

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@Zyzle thanks a lot it was the case. When I deleted those files all is working now.

akanass on 2 May 2018

Cool, I was running this command inside a folder name test on Desktop. However I kept a file name .angular.json as backup on Desktop. So it was creating problem. I simply deleted that file and now it is working perfect.

rastermechanism on 3 Jun 2018

I had to delete all the .angular* file from my home directory on Windows 10. Post this, installed latest cli using npm install --save-dev @angular/cli@latest . This did the trick, and my ng new is working now.