I wonder how to check the version of ionic. If I do ionic -v I get back 1.4.3
Can that be? Wasn't 1.0.0 just released?
That is the version number of the Ionic CLI, which is different from the version number of Ionic's library. Here are a couple easy ways to check the version.
In the browser console, you can run ionic.version and it will print to the console what version it is.
You can also look at the bower.json file in your app, and it will show the version number like you see here. https://github.com/ionic-in-action/chapter5/blob/master/bower.json#L5
Run from your project folder:
$ ionic info
Cordova CLI: 5.0.0
Ionic Version: 1.0.1
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.1
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.3
OS: Windows 7 SP1
Node Version: v0.12.2
If your CLI is old enough, it will say "info is not a valid task" and you can use this:
$ ionic lib
Local Ionic version: 1.0.1 (C:\stuff\july21app\www\lib\ionic\version.json)
Latest Ionic version: 1.0.1 (released 2015-06-30)
* Local version up to date
In the terminal following command returns the version:
'ionic version' or 'ionic -v'
returned
'3.2.0'
The above is the CLI version. Go to the project folder and use the code below like scw's answer.
$ cd ionic-project
$ ionic info
✔ Gathering environment info - done!
Ionic:
ionic (Ionic CLI) : 4.2.1 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic)
Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2
@ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.0
Cordova:
cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.1.2 ([email protected])
Cordova Platforms : android 7.1.4
Cordova Plugins : cordova-plugin-ionic 5.2.7, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 2.2.5, (and 15 other plugins)
System:
NodeJS : v8.12.0 (/usr/local/bin/node)
npm : 6.4.1
OS : OS X Yosemite
Ionic projects structure are similar as Angular projects, you can get use
ionic info
command to Print project, system, and environment information.
This command is an easy way to share information about your setup. If applicable, be sure to run ionic info within your project directory to display even more information.
We may use --json after ionic info to print system/environment info in JSON format
ionic info --json
on your terminal run this command on your ionic project folder ionic info and you will get the following :
cli packages: (/usr/local/lib/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 ios 4.5.5
Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2
System:
Node : v8.9.3
npm : 6.1.0
OS : macOS
Xcode : Xcode 10.1 Build version 10B61
Environment Variables:
ANDROID_HOME : not set
Misc:
backend : pro
$ ionic info Ionic:
Ionic CLI : 5.4.16
Utility:
cordova-res : not installed native-run : 0.3.0
System:
NodeJS : v12.16.1 npm : 6.13.4 OS : Linux 5.3
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Ionic CLI update available: 5.4.16 → 6.2.2
The package name has changed from ionic to @ionic/cli!
To update, run: npm uninstall -g ionic
Then run: npm i -g @ionic/cli
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ionic info
This will give you the ionic version,node, npm and os.
If you need only ionic version use ionic -v.
If your project's development ionic version and your global versions are different then check them by using the below commands.
To check the globally installed ionic version ionic -g and to check the project's ionic version use ionic -g.
To check the project's ionic version use ionic -v in your project path or else ionic info to get the details of ionic and its dependencies.