'You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the serve command

I am trying to run a drag and drop sample from dragula.but when i run ng serve it complains with :

You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the serve command.

when i run ng -v in my machine, I have:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.16
node: 4.6.0
os: win32 x64

I have tried to add:

"angular-cli": "1.0.0-beta.16",

in the dependencies of project and then npm install, but my node fails to install the package.

How can i run the dragula?

angular

Solution 1:^[1]

if ng serve doesn't work try npm start.

I don't know the exact reason, but for me it works !!

Solution 2:^[2]

Try installing npm install -g @angular/cli@latest since the angular-cli has been renamed.

Solution 3:^[3]

ng serve Will not work if you don't have angular cli,

but you can start your project by npm start command.

You should install angular cli globally by following command.

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

Solution 4:^[4]

angular-cli and @angular-cli is different so that the version becomes conflict. So try this commands. Hope this helps for you

1. npm uninstall -g angular-cli @angular-cli
2. npm cache clean --force
3. npm install -g @angular-cli or npm install -g @angular-cli@latest

Solution 5:^[5]

A quick hint is angular-cli vs angular/cli is different. if you by mistake installed angular-cli remove it and install angular/cli

Solution 6:^[6]

You need to toggle to the directory of your project, i.e. root folder of the project. ex. PS E:\workspace\Angular dev\Heroes> ng serve The serve command requires to be run in an Angular project, but a project definition could not be found.

PS E:\workspace\Angular dev\Heroes> cd tour-heroes
PS E:\workspace\Angular dev\Heroes\tour-heroes> ng serve

Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/

Solution 7:^[7]

Here is what worked for me:

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest --force

This overrides the current version.

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Solution 3	ganesh kalje
Solution 4	Sathiesh Palanisamy
Solution 5	Vipul Pandey
Solution 6	Masoud Rahimi
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