project definition could not be found-- Angular

Question

when I'm running like "ng serve" or "ng g c abc" in terminal in visual studio it shows "The serve command requires to be run in an Angular project, but a project definition could not be found."

I tried the "ng update @angular/cli --from=1.7.4 --migrate-only" and it shows "Could not find a package.json. Are you in a Node project?"

As @tony commented, please cd i to the folder where the package.json file is present. — Koushik Ravulapelli

tony tony · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-22T13:46:09

When using Angular in Visual Studio, regardless of whether it's being hosted as part of Asp.Net or not, remember that Angular is a separate entity. 'ng serve' is an Angular command which has to be run in an Angular project

Hence make sure you run Angular commands in the ClientApp folder

project definition could not be found-- Angular

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