Ionic CLI does not seem to be backwards compatible for me

It seems that every time I work on an Ionic 2 app and Want to go back and continue working on my ionic 1.7.14 app my Ionic CLI thinks I want to use Ionic 2 and I have to re-install ionic 1.7.14 in order to run simple ionic commands…

I get this…

$ ionic info
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
Uh oh! Looks like you're missing a module in your gulpfile:
Cannot find module 'bower'

Do you need to run `npm install`?

In the past I have switch to Node 4.4.4 and now I need to also re-install ionic 1.7.14 via npm to get my ionic 1 projects to build and run CLI commands…

What can be the issue?

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Yo Abel! it’s Marcus From GA! Did you ever find the answer to this issue? Im getting the same error after running ionic serve --lab in a project made in Ionic 1…