How can I solve "No projects support the 'serve' target." Error?

Question

When I try to run ng serve in the command line in VSCode tihs error pops out: "No projects support the 'serve' target."
What should I do?

Answer 1

Update @angular/cli

1. npm install -g @angular/cli
2. npm install @angular/cli
3. ng update @angular/cli

see also this link: http://cssstars.com/no-projects-support-the-serve-target/

Answer 2

run npm install --ignore-scripts from the project directory

Answer 3

Check angular.json file, must be something is not proper with the projects property