Angular 5 project is unable to upgrade in to Angular 7

Question

My current Angular cli Version is 1.6.6 and Angular Version is 5.2.2

I am trying to update it to Angular 7 and new angular cli version is 7.3.6

When I try to upgrade using ng update @angular/cli, an error in console prints

The specified command update is invalid. For available options, see ng help.

Your global Angular CLI version (7.3.6) is greater than your local
version (1.6.6). The local Angular CLI version is used.

It seems like this update command has been removed. I have followed the official documentation.

Any suggestions to upgrade?

Answer 1

There is an issue in the official documentation.

It says to run npm install @angular/cli but actually you need to run

npm install --save-dev @angular/cli@latest

This will update the package.json, so that you can continue from there.

After this, you can run ng update @angular/cli and so on.