angularjs - How do I properly configure ng from npm as a normal CLI command?

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I am seeing tutorials with NPM and Node.js that have the ng package handler. However, they run this straight from the command prompt. I am curious if I am missing something to install to run commands like ng serve for example, without having to preface them with npm run like npm run ng serve --open ?

Thank you!

Note that you will be using the cli only for Angular 2+ versions. If you want something for angularjs there is a non official cli and it's only for component generation. – Luiz Carlos Aug 7, 2018 at 11:53

It's not recommended to install @angular/cli globally. Some projects will use different version of angular@cli and executing ng commands will have unexpected result.

Instead, install locally into dev dependencies with:

npm install --save-dev angular@cli
or Yarn:
yarn add --dev angular@cli
After you install locally, you can setup various npm scripts to execute ng commands:
scripts: {
    "dev": "ng serve"
Run the script:
npm run dev
** Please note, if you have globally installed angular@cli, running the commands mentioned above will use the local angular@cli package from node_modules/.bin.
Also, npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the npm registry. You can read about it more here
                you don't really need to add dev task. npm run ng -- serve would work just fine... To open browser npm run ng -- server --open
– AdityaParab
                Aug 7, 2018 at 14:18
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