How to upgrade Angular from V6 to V7 when the latest version is V8?

Question

Usually, I upgrade Angular to the latest version but I have an old app in v6 that I would like to upgrade first to V7 first (which is not the latest).

The Angular documentation is not very clear:

• Update to V7 of the core framework and CLI by running ng update @angular/cli @angular/core in your terminal.
• Update to V8 of the core framework and CLI by running ng update @angular/cli @angular/core in your terminal

However ng-update always tries to update to the latest version.

Answer 1

ng update @angular/core@7.0.0 -- or whichever version you want to install.

You can also go into the package.json and update the core to the specific version you want and run npm install

Answer 2

Follow the guide on upgrade.angular.io . You can set your current and desired version to whatever you want it to be. For 6.0 to 7.0 these are the steps at the very minimum:

1. npm install -g rxjs-tslint
2. rxjs-5-to-6-migrate -p src/tsconfig.app.json
3. ng update @angular/cli @angular/core