Every documents and blogs tell us to install Ionic CLI as globaly.

But, sometime we want use it as locally.

Use npm-script instead

We can easy to use Ionic CLI as locally by using npm-script.

// Create project
$ npx @ionic/cli start
$ cd CREATED_PROJECT

// Install CLI
$ npm install -D @ionic/cli
$  ./node_modules/.bin/ionic --help

Edit package.json

When you update your package.json file like this example, we can use Ionic CLI as locally more useful.

{
  "name": "ionic-angular-scully",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "author": "Ionic Framework",
  "homepage": "https://ionicframework.com/",
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "ionic": "ionic", // Add the line
...

After that, we can use the CLI from npm run ionic.