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ERROR: The serve command requires to be run in an Angular project, but a project definition could not be found

I have downloaded a project from the Internet and tried ng serve but I got:

The serve command requires to be run in an Angular project, but a project definition could not be found.

So I tried this command(as in README file is written the CLI version that the app is generated by is 1.4.9):

ng update @angular/cli --migrate-only --from=1.4.9

I get no errors after this command, but when I try ng serve I get the previous error again! How can I fix this?

Solution

  • after updating did you cd back into the angular project the one with src > app ? you have to run this command in the directory where package.json exists