Covalent: Seed project will not ng serve - invalid angular-cli project

[iceman3000]

What is the expected behavior?

To be able to ng serve project

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

To work as documented

Which version of Angular and Material, and which browser and OS does this issue affect?

CLI Lateset

Other information

Followed instructions exactly as indicated to download the seed project and I get the following error trying to ng serve:

You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the serve command.

[emoralesb05]

This is a CLI version/package issue, not really covalent.

Try ng -v and check your CLI package name and version since they changed it to @angular/cli

[iceman3000]

Hi again! I guess the point I was raising here was that following the documentation on how to use the Seed project doesn't work - whether that be changes from angular or covalent, I think that the docs should be accurate in terms of delivering a working product. Again my understanding on how CLI and Packages work is limited, can you please advise what I need to do so that the seed package is recognized as a valid angular-cli package so I may serve it?

ng -v results the following:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.28.3
node: 6.9.1
os: win32 x64
@angular/common: 2.4.9
@angular/compiler: 2.4.9
@angular/core: 2.4.9
@angular/forms: 2.4.9
@angular/http: 2.4.9
@angular/material: 2.0.0-beta.2
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.9
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.9
@angular/router: 3.4.9
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.9

[asaph26]

@iceman3000 : As @emoralesb05 mentioned, you are working with an older version of the CLI. The steps to get the latest CLI installed is documented in the CLI repository.

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli#updating-angular-cli

Since you are using a much older version of the CLI, the uninstall step would be different for you. You need to do the following

npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm cache clean
npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

You should be able to get going after this.

[iceman3000]

Thanks again for your help guys, this resolved the issues.