[mythz]

I created a new project using @angular/cli 1.6 which the release says is tied to Angular 5.1: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/releases/tag/v1.6.0

But all npm package.json dependencies are still anchored on the same ^5.0.0 dependencies that ng v1.5.0 had and still depends on typescript "~2.4.2", basically ignoring the 5.1 announcement.

How can we create a new Angular 5.1 App using ng? Are we meant to manually change all dependencies to ^5.1.0

[shusson]

See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/pull/8766

[mythz]

I manually updated the typescript dependency which breaks the build, even when manually upgrading the compiler-cli to ^5.1.0, so basically 5.1 doesn't work with typescript 2.5.3 as indicated in the announcement.

I also don't get the point of upgrading to the latest angular-cli v1.6 and using it to create the same 5.0.0 app that v1.5 did.

Is the way to create a v5.1 ng app is for everyone to manually update all dependencies to ^5.1.0?

[shusson]

the caret ('^') will update a minor version[1]. So ^5.0.0 will install 5.1.0.

[1] https://bytearcher.com/articles/semver-explained-why-theres-...

[mythz]

The question is what's the best way to create an ng 5.1 app? i.e. what was just announced. I've just manually updated all deps to ^5.1.0.

[shusson]

If you grab the latest angular-cli and do `ng new foo`, you will get the latest 5.1.0 update. Or if you have an existing app, run `npm install` but make sure you update your package-lock.json file.