Running `ng build` in a specific directory

When I need to go to certain directory just to run a script I usually use pushd and popd. Example:

pushd /path/to/dir
ng build
popd

After this snippet is run your working directory (pwd) will remain unchanged.

Note: This answer is specific to Angular commands

You can leverage the npm run command to run an Angular command while using the parameter --prefix to indicate the sub-directory.

Since Angular already has a shortcut for this command, you can simply run

npm run build --prefix path\to\Angular\project

First, create a shortcut for this command in your package.json file

{
    "scripts": {
        // "CMD-SHORTCUT": "custom-command"
        "prod-build": "ng build --prod"
    },
}

Then, run the new shortcut in the same way as example 1:

npm run prod-build --prefix path\to\Angular\project

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