This version of CLI is only compatible with Angular versions ^13.0.0, but Angular version 12.2.13 was found instead

Question

My Ionic project was running fine a month ago. Today when I tried ionic serve or ionic build, I get the below error:

What CLI version is compatible with Angular version 12.2.13? If you really want to know why I am asking this question you can ready further.

So I followed the advice to upgrade to Angular 13 on the official Angular website, I used the following command: npm @angular/cli@13 update @angular/core@13 @angular/cli@13.

This route asked me to upgrade my Node.js to version 16 (latest, current). After upgrading Node.js to v16 I retried to upgrade to Angular 13 and during this process the installation failed/stopped due to unsupported dependencies and so on.

I googled most solutions, tried, and wound up with a project where all my plugins can't be found and so on. So I reversed the above process by uninstalling Node.js v16 to v12, removed npm, the node_modules folder and now I am back at the point where I am getting the below error in the picture.

Here's my developer environment from ionic info:

Here's a copy of my package.json file:

    "dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "~12.2.8",
    "@angular/core": "~12.2.8",
    "@angular/forms": "~12.2.8",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "~12.2.8",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "~12.2.8",
    "@angular/router": "~12.2.8",
    "@babel/compat-data": "^7.8.0",
    "@ionic-native/app-version": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/call-number": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/camera": "^5.23.0",
    "@ionic-native/core": "^5.0.0",
    "@ionic-native/device": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/file": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/file-transfer": "^5.23.0",
    "@ionic-native/full-screen-image": "^5.23.0",
    "@ionic-native/in-app-browser": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/ionic-webview": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/keyboard": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/onesignal": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/photo-viewer": "^5.23.0",
    "@ionic-native/splash-screen": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic-native/status-bar": "^5.36.0",
    "@ionic/angular": "^5.0.0",
    "@ionic/storage-angular": "^3.0.6",
    "bufferutil": "^4.0.1",
    "call-number": "^1.0.1",
    "cordova-plugin-actionsheet": "^2.3.3",
    "cordova-plugin-dialogs": "^2.0.2",
    "core-js": "^2.5.4",
    "rxjs": "~6.5.1",
    "tslib": "^1.9.0",
    "utf-8-validate": "^5.0.2",
    "zone.js": "~0.11.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^13.0.2",
    "@angular/cli": "^12.2.8",
    "@angular/compiler": "^12.2.8",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^12.2.8",
    "@angular/language-service": "~12.2.8",
    "@ionic/angular-toolkit": "^5.0.3",
    "@types/jasmine": "~3.3.8",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.3",
    "@types/node": "~8.9.4",
    "codelyzer": "^5.0.0",
    "cordova-android": "^9.1.0",
    "cordova-plugin-app-version": "^0.1.12",
    "cordova-plugin-camera": "^6.0.0",
    "cordova-plugin-device": "^2.0.3",
    "cordova-plugin-file": "^6.0.2",
    "cordova-plugin-file-transfer": "git+https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer.git",
    "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser": "^4.1.0",
    "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard": "^2.2.0",
    "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview": "^5.0.0",
    "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": "^6.0.0",
    "cordova-plugin-statusbar": "^2.4.3",
    "cordova-sqlite-storage": "^6.0.0",
    "jasmine-core": "^3.4.0",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.2.1",
    "karma": "^6.3.4",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.2.0",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "~2.0.1",
    "karma-jasmine": "~2.0.1",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^1.4.0",
    "onesignal-cordova-plugin": "^3.0.0",
    "protractor": "^7.0.0",
    "ts-node": "~7.0.0",
    "tslint": "~5.15.0",
    "typescript": "~4.3.5"
  },
  "description": "Vuyou's Funerals",
  "cordova": {
    "plugins": {
      "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser": {},
      "mx.ferreyra.callnumber": {},
      "cordova-plugin-file-transfer": {},
      "onesignal-cordova-plugin": {},
      "cordova-plugin-camera": {
        "ANDROIDX_CORE_VERSION": "1.6.+"
      },
      "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview": {},
      "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard": {},
      "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": {},
      "cordova-plugin-device": {},
      "cordova-plugin-statusbar": {},
      "cordova-sqlite-storage": {},
      "cordova-plugin-app-version": {}
    },
    "platforms": []
  }

Solution 1

npm i @angular-devkit/[email protected] --force
npm i @angular/cli@12

Solution 2

I had the same error, but I was using V 11.2.14.

The simple solution is to go to the package.json file and change

"@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^13.0.2"

(it is inside dependencies)

to your compatible version.

So when I changed it to

"@angular-devkit/build-angular": "~0.1102.3",

it worked.

Comments

[GaurangDhorda]

Updated angular locally, using ngUpdate

[Morgs]

@GaurangDhorda I don't think I understand what you mean? What I am asking is, what is the correct CLI version for Angular v12.2.13 ?

[AlexElin]

try changing angular-devkit/build-angular version from ^13.0.2 to ^12.2.8

[Morgs]

@AlexElin you saved my entire world! Thank you very much now my app is running again. I wonder how on earth the CLI version changed

[Ian Campbell]

This question is being discussed on Meta, which explains its sudden scrutiny.

[Donald Duck]

Please do not upload images of code/errors when asking a question.