angular: material update to latest version. Not downloading the specified version

Question

I suppose to install specific version of @angular/material and @angular/cdk in the application. The same is provided in the package.json. But when do npm i it is downloading the latest package of material and cdk.

Steps to reproduce:

• Clone the repo
• Install package (npm install)
• verify downloaded package version (ng -v)

Answer 1

You can update your package.json to use exact version as below :

"dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "6.1.4",
    "@angular/cdk": "6.4.1",
    "@angular/common": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/compiler": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/core": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/forms": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/http": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/material": "6.4.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "6.1.0",
    "@angular/router": "6.1.0",
    "core-js": "2.5.4",
    "rxjs": "6.0.0",
    "zone.js": "0.8.26"
  },

As per npm config You can also set your npm config to use exact version rather than using npm's default semver range operator by running below :

npm config set save-exact true