How to remove package using Angular CLI?

Question

Angular 6 has new CLI command ng add <package>.

How can I remove the package using Angular CLI?

UPDATE

ng add will use your package manager to download new dependencies and invoke an installation script (implemented as a schematic) which can update your project with configuration changes, add additional dependencies (e.g. polyfills), or scaffold package-specific initialization code

It is not the same npm install <package>

I was trying to use ng rm but it is not working yet.

Nour · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-12T14:50:59.640

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You can use npm uninstall <package-name> will remove it from your package.json file and from node_modules.

If you do ng help command, you will see that there is no ng remove/delete supported command. So, basically you cannot revert the ng add behavior yet.

edited May 12 '18 at 14:50

answered May 12 '18 at 14:06

Nour

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Yes i do, ng add will use package manager to run the install script and edit your angular.json file, but npm install will only install the package. – Nour May 12 '18 at 14:27
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So you need ng remove command that will edit your configuration again and remove any dependency, css files and javascript files which has included by the ng add command ? – Nour May 12 '18 at 14:30
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The `ng help` command show that there is no `ng remove/delete` command. – Nour May 12 '18 at 14:38
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Wonder why would some one implement `ng add` and not implement `ng remove`! – James Poulose Oct 20 '18 at 02:30
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run the install script and **edit your angular.json file** <- This is the problem. npm uninstall is not a perfect solution – tom10271 Jan 17 '20 at 02:24

Daniel Danielecki · Answer 2 · 2019-06-03T07:39:47.937

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It's an open issue #900 on GitHub, unfortunately at this point of time it looks that in Angular CLI there's nothing like ng remove/rm/..., only using npm uninstall DEPENDENCY is the current workaround.

edited Jun 03 '19 at 07:39

answered Apr 24 '19 at 09:08

Daniel Danielecki

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The linked issue refers to component removal. I think it doesn't apply for this question – DSantiagoBC Jun 21 '21 at 23:42

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '20 at 07:25

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Sometimes a dependency added with ng add will add more than one package, typing npm uninstall lib1 lib2 could be error prone and slow, so just remove the not needed libraries from package.json and run npm i

answered May 18 '20 at 07:25

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 22 '21 at 09:03

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I don't know about CLI, I had tried, but I couldn't. I deleted using IDE Idea history.

If You use an Intellij Idea, just open History changes.

Tap by main folder of the project -> right click -> local history -> show history.

Then from top to bottom revert changes.

edited Dec 22 '21 at 09:03

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answered Feb 25 '21 at 15:12

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why do you need to remove BrowserAnimationsModule? – Dmitry Grinko Feb 25 '21 at 20:33
It's can be added when we connect material. Everybody should try to understand what he is doing. It's not necessary to delete it. – virus_dmk Feb 26 '21 at 07:33
I understood what u mean, I gave an example of removing angular material, and hadn't wrote about it, I'll delete 2 part my answer so that it is not misleading, thanks. – virus_dmk Feb 26 '21 at 13:00
My question is not about git usage. I mentioned about git nothing – Dmitry Grinko Mar 24 '22 at 00:58

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 22 '21 at 14:24

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With the cli I don't know if it's a remove command but you can remove it from package.json and stop using it in your code. If you reinstall the packages you will not have it any more

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answered May 12 '18 at 13:25

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