Clear angular cache in .angular folder

Question

From version 13.0.0 there will be a .angular folder generated in root which is ignored by git containing a cache folder which caches builds.

How can I remove (or clear) this cache?

Answer 1

You can configure caching options of cli in angular.json file. One of options is cache which gives you the option of disabling it.

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/@angular/cli/lib/config/schema.json",
  "version": 1,
  "cli": {
    "cache": {
      "enabled": false
    }
  },
  "projects": {}
}

You can disable it by running this command too:

ng config cli.cache.enabled false

• To clear the cache on Unix-based operating systems:

rm -rf .angular/cache

• To clear the cache on Windows:

rmdir /s /q .angular/cache

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Update (10th, Aug 2022):

For Angular 14 and up, you can now clear, enable and disable cache config by running these commands:

clean

ng cache clean

// Deletes persistent disk cache from disk.

disable

ng cache disable
ng cache off

// Disables persistent disk cache for all projects in the workspace.

enable

ng cache enable
ng cache on

You can find out more about it in docs.

Answer 2

To clear the Angular cache you can run:

ng cache clean