How to install angular-cli without internet

Question

If you only have the zip file to install angular-cli with - how can it be installed without an internet connection?

Answer 1

With that ZIP only you will not be able to achieve that.

Because within the bin folder, the ng still needs some dependencies.

In order to do that:

• Download the zip from the official repo: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/archive/master.zip
• Unzip it and go into that folder
• Run npm install or yarn
• Zip the whole folder again

Now you'll be able to run the CLI on an offline computer if you share that zip by doing:
- Unzip the CLI folder with the node_modules in it
- /path/to/the/folder/bin/ng new my-project

BUT. As this computer is offline, you'll only be able to scaffold a new project without installing it's required dependencies.

Now, if you want to build a project on that offline computer, you'll need something more:

On the online computer:
- install @angular/cli yarn global add @angular/cli (or use your zip)
- create a new empty project while online: ng new base-project
(wait for yarn install or npm install to finish)
- zip the node_modules folder, the one within the new project
(as node_modules_backup.zip for ex, and brace yourself... It's going to take a long time I guess)

On the offline computer
- Share the ZIP from the new project (with USB for ex) - Create your project: /path/to/the/folder/bin/ng new my-project --skip-install
- Unzip the node_modules_backup.zip into the newly created project

Now running /path/to/the/folder/bin/ng serve should work.