Angular is creating caches of NPM packages in .angular directory

Question

How do I disable the angular caching that occurs in the root of all of the Angular projects? This seemed to start last week when I installed NVM.

My project has an NPM package pulled from a local directory, which was stubbornly refusing to update in Angular when changed even after rerunning npm install. Disabling the CLI cache as per stackoverflow.com/a/70249096/2902555 fixed the issue. — Alex Walker
– Alex Walker, Commented Aug 14, 2024 at 10:34

Vimal Patel · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-06 16:58:25Z

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Angular now supports the use of persistent build cache by default for new v13 projects.

To disable it you can run below command in your workspace root folder.

ng config cli.cache.enabled false

You can also disabled it by setting the "enabled" flag to "false" in angular.json file

"cli": {
    "cache": {
      "enabled": false
    }
  }

Reference:- https://angular.io/cli/cache

answered Dec 6, 2021 at 16:58

Vimal Patel

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LNCSTR Over a year ago

THANK YOU. I've been searching everywhere to figure this out including Angular docs. Much appreciated.

Vimal Patel Over a year ago

@MarkLancaster If this answer your question please mark it as accepted. That will help others as well, thanks.

Trevor Karjanis · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-24 16:52:11Z

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Vimal Patel's answer is accurate, but the following command will do the same without having to know the configuration path (documentation).

ng cache disable

However, disabling the build cache will not prevent npm packages in node_modules from being cached. Not only are packages in node_modules considered immutable unless the version in package.json changes, webpack also considers node_modules to be immutable.

answered Mar 24, 2023 at 16:52

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JSON Derulo Over a year ago

disabling the build cache will not prevent npm packages in node_modules from being cached I think this is wrong, Angular cache does exactly that: caching packages in node_modules

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