To answer one of the questions, it is necessary to have both a global and local install for the tools to work. If you try to run ng serve on an application without the local install of the CLI (global install only), you will get the following error. You have to be inside an Angular … Read more
I just had the same problem. It’s related to release v6.0.0-rc.2, https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/releases: New configuration format. The new file can be found at angular.json (but .angular.json is also accepted). Running ng update on a CLI 1.7 project will move you to the new configuration. I needed to execute: ng update @angular/cli –migrate-only –from=1.7.4 This removed .angular-cli.json … Read more