Your global Angular CLI version is greater than your local version

# Your global Angular CLI version is greater than your local version

The error "Your global Angular CLI version is greater than your local version" occurs when your global version of the Angular CLI doesn't match your local version of the package.

To solve the error, update your global or local version so that the versions of the Angular CLI match.

your global angular cli version is greater than your local version

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Your global Angular CLI version (15.0.2) is greater than your local version (15.0.0). The local Angular CLI version is used.

To disable the warning use "ng config -g cli.warnings.versionMismatch false".

You can use the following command to get your global version of the Angular CLI.

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ng version

# 👇️ the same as above
ng v

# 👇️ the same as above
npm ls @angular/cli -g

get angular version

If you use an older version of the Angular CLI, you would use the following commands.

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# 👇️ for older Angular CLI versions 👇️
ng --version

ng -v

To check your local version of the Angular CLI, open your terminal in your project's root directory (where your package.json file is) and run the following command.

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npm ls @angular/cli --depth=0

get local version of angular cli

My global version of the Angular CLI is 15.0.2 and my local version is 15.0.0 and the versions have to match.

I can solve the error in the 3 following ways:

Downgrade my global version of the Angular CLI to 15.0.0, so it matches my local version.
Update my local version of the Angular CLI to 15.0.2, so it matches my global version.
Update the local and global Angular CLI packages to the latest version.

If you need to install a specific version of a package use the @ symbol.

# Installing version 15.0.2

Here is an example of installing version 15.0.2 of the Angular CLI both locally and globally.

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# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI locally
npm install @angular/cli@15.0.2 --save-dev

# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI globally
npm install -g @angular/cli@15.0.2

If you get an error when running the commands, use the --legacy-peer-deps flag.

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# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI locally
npm install @angular/cli@15.0.2 --save-dev --legacy-peer-deps

# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI globally
npm install -g @angular/cli@15.0.2 --legacy-peer-deps

Alternatively, you can update your local and global installation of the Angular CLI to the latest version by issuing the following commands.

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# 👇️ install the latest version of the Angular CLI locally
npm install @angular/cli@latest --save-dev

# 👇️ install the latest version of the Angular CLI globally
npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

If you get an error when running the commands, use the --legacy-peer-deps flag.

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# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI locally
npm install @angular/cli@latest --save-dev --legacy-peer-deps

# 👇️ install a specific version of the Angular CLI globally
npm install -g @angular/cli@latest --legacy-peer-deps

You can verify that your local and global versions of the Angular CLI match by issuing the following commands.

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# 👇️ local version
npm ls @angular/cli --depth=0

# 👇️ global version
npm ls -g @angular/cli

verify angular global and local versions match

You can also check the version of your locally installed Angular packages in the dependencies and devDependencies objects in your package.json file.

check angular versions in package json

You can use the npm outdated command to list the current version and the latest version of your npm packages.

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npm outdated

You can use the npm update command to update your locally installed packages or the npm update -g command to update your globally installed NPM packages.

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# 👇️ update ALL locally installed packages
npm update

# 👇️ update ALL globally installed packages
npm update -g

The npm update command follows the version constraints specified in your package.json file.

# Delete your node_modules and reinstall your dependencies

If the error persists, try to delete your node_modules and package-lock.json (not package.json), rerun the npm install command and restart your development server.

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# 👇️  (Windows) delete node_modules and package-lock.json
rd /s /q "node_modules"
del package-lock.json
del -f yarn.lock

# 👇️  (macOS/Linux) delete node_modules and package-lock.json
rm -rf node_modules
rm -f package-lock.json
rm -f yarn.lock

# 👇️ clean your npm cache
npm cache clean --force

npm install

If you want to update all packages in your project to the latest version, use the npm-check-updates package.

Open your terminal in your project's root directory (where your package.json file is) and run the following command.

You can add your package.json file to version control (e.g. git) because the following 2 commands will update the versions of your packages in your package.json file.

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npx npm-check-updates -u

npm install --legacy-peer-deps

The commands update all package versions in your package.json file to the latest version and install the packages.

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Your global Angular CLI version is greater than your local version