This is a simple question but I'm struggling to find the answer via Google...
I have an angular 4 project (created using angular cli) and would like to make use of http interceptors that have just been released in 4.3.
How do I upgrade to this minor release using angular cli?
Major version angular updates should be done with ng update.
npm update for updating angular minor/patch versions has a downside: it will also update other unrelated packages.
You can use npm-check-updates to update just specific packages and you can choose to target patch/minor/major versions.
This command will update all angular package minor (and patch) versions (but it will keep the major versions):
npx npm-check-updates --upgrade --target "minor" --filter "/@angular.*/"
That command gives you a preview of the new versions and updates the package.json accordingly:
Afterwards you can run npm install.
In some cases ng update doesn't update the angular core dependencies with minor version updates.
I've faced a case trying to update from Angular 6.0.0 to 6.1.0, and it didn't work.
I solved this only doing the steps:
Delete the project node_modules directory
Change manually in the package.json all the angular core dependencies libraries:
common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms, http
platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic, router
Like the last 4 lines here:
"dependencies": {
"@agm/core": "~1.0.0-beta.3",
"@angular/animations": "^6.0.9",
"@angular/cdk": "^6.4.0",
"@angular/cli": "^6.2.9",
"@angular/common": "^6.1.x",
"@angular/core": "^6.1.x",
"@angular/forms": "^6.1.x",
"@angular/http": "^6.1.x",
See in the devdependencies for compiler, compiler-cli too.
Run npm install to rebuild node_modules.
After this we have the result of ng --version cli command from 6.0.0 to 6.1.10.