Upgrading (or downgrading) the other packages

As we can easily expect, if we upgrade (or downgrade) Angular to 5.0.0 final, we also need to take care of a series of other NPM packages that might require to be updated (or downgraded) as well. Here's the full package list we'll be using in our package.json file throughout the book: the important packages are highlighted--be sure to triple-check them!

{
  "name": "TestMakerFree",
  "private": true,
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "karma start ClientApp/test/karma.conf.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/common": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/compiler": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/core": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/forms": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/http": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/platform-server": "5.0.2",
    "@angular/router": "5.0.2",
    "@ngtools/webpack": "1.8.2",
    "@types/webpack-env": "1.13.2",
    "angular2-template-loader": "0.6.2",
    "aspnet-prerendering": "3.0.1",
    "aspnet-webpack": "2.0.1",
    "awesome-typescript-loader": "3.4.0",
    "bootstrap": "3.3.7",
    "css": "2.2.1",
    "css-loader": "0.28.7",
    "es6-shim": "0.35.3",
    "event-source-polyfill": "0.0.9",
    "expose-loader": "0.7.3",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "2.1.2",
    "file-loader": "1.1.5",
    "html-loader": "0.5.1",
    "isomorphic-fetch": "2.2.1",
    "jquery": "3.2.1",
    "json-loader": "0.5.7",
    "preboot": "5.1.7",
    "raw-loader": "0.5.1",
    "reflect-metadata": "0.1.10",
    "rxjs": "5.5.2",
    "style-loader": "0.19.0",
    "to-string-loader": "1.1.5",
    "es6-shim": "0.35.3",
    "typescript": "2.4.2",
    "url-loader": "0.6.2",
    "webpack": "2.6.1",
    "webpack-hot-middleware": "2.20.0",
    "webpack-merge": "4.1.1",
    "zone.js": "0.8.12"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/chai": "4.0.1",
    "@types/jasmine": "2.5.53",
    "chai": "4.0.2",
    "jasmine-core": "2.6.4",
    "karma": "1.7.0",
    "karma-chai": "0.1.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "2.2.0",
    "karma-cli": "1.0.1",
    "karma-jasmine": "1.1.0",
    "karma-webpack": "2.0.3"
  }
}

It's advisable to perform a manual command-line npm update from the project's root folder right after applying these changes to the package.json file, in order to trigger a batch update of all the project's NPM packages: sometimes Visual Studio doesn't update the packages automatically and doing that using the GUI can be tricky.

For this very reason, a convenient update-npm.bat batch file has been added to this book's source code repository on GitHub to handle that--without manually having to type the above command.

For further reference and/or future updates, please also check the updated source code within this book's official GitHub repository, which will always contain the latest improvements, bug fixes, compatibility fixes and so on.