How to specify the angular version while creating ionic application

Question

I am trying to develop an application using Mobilefirst with Ionic framework. I found that this application uses angular-5. But I know only AngularJS. Is there any command to specify the angular version while creating ionic app.

Angular 2+ is used in ionic 2+ applications. It's easy to learn angular 2 and its very is to migrate from angularjs to angular. If you really really need to go with angularjs you have to use ionic 1. — Anuradha Gunasekara, Apr 10 '18 at 10:43

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '18 at 11:01

If you really want to install Ionic 1 for your AngularJS development you can use npm to choose that version like this:

npm install -g ionic@1.4.0

If you want to get the old docs you can do that here but I really think you should try and upgrade to angular2+ and use the latest ionic. You can learn more about migrating to angular2 here.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '18 at 11:40

If you want to use AngularJS for your ionic development, then you need to start your project with the flag ionic1, choose template

ionic start myProjectName --type ionic1

move into the project and run

ionic serve

Already done the above steps but wanted to Choose specific version: If you wanted to use a sepcific version of AngularJS v1, within your project directory simply update your bower.json.

  "dependencies": {
    "angular": "^1.6.10",
    "angular-mocks": "^1.6.10"
  }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 10 '18 at 20:37

Is there any command to specify the angular version while creating ionic app.

Run from your project root folder: ionic info

C:\Users\Training\myApp>ionic info

cli packages: (C:\Users\Training\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules)

    @ionic/cli-utils  : 1.19.2
    ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.20.0

global packages:

    cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0

local packages:

    @ionic/app-scripts : 3.1.8
    Cordova Platforms  : android 7.0.0
    Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.9.2

System:

    Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1
    Node              : v9.3.0
    npm               : 3.10.10
    OS                : Windows 10

Environment Variables:

    ANDROID_HOME : D:\Setups\Android\Sdk

Misc:

    backend : pro

If you want to create new project in ionic 1 then use:

ionic start myApp blank --type ionic1

How to specify the angular version while creating ionic application

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