How to update ionic 4 project to latest beta release?

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First way, with cmd, like:

 npm rm @ionic/angular --save
 npm install @ionic/angular --save

Second way, the “clean sheet” way:

edit manually package.json and change the version according what you want, like changing 4.0.0-beta.3 to 4.0.0-beta.5

then

 rm -r node_modules
 rm package-lock.json
 npm install

conz: it wipe all libs and will recreate a new lock file, so in the meantime you could receive other dependencies update
pro: it makes every dependencies clean again

I use this method these days with beta because then I’m sure I’m up-to-date and won’t discover later some weird issue with a dependencies, but well like I said, there are some conz

Alternative: use ncu (https://github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates). In any case actually, I love ncu, it really helps me each week to follow updates or at least to see which of the dependencies I used moved

important note if you want to upgrade to beta.5 from beta.3, note that you should also check if you are using typescript v2.9.2 and angular >= 6.1, if not they should be upgraded too

I hope it helps

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