Update Ionic in the existing project - angularjs

Question

I was excited to see the Release version of Ionic, but found myself unable to update my existing project. Here is what I did.
run npm install -g ionic
Open bower.json in your App's root folder (the one above www)
You will find something like this here:
{
"name": "MyAppName",
"private": "true",
"devDependencies": {
"ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#xxxxxxxx"
}
}
Change it to this (basically by changing the last line:
{
"name": "MyAppName",
"private": "true",
"devDependencies": {
"ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#1.0.0-rc.1"
}
}
Save the file
Go to command line and run this in your App Folder
bower update
ionic lib update
Run ionic lib to check the version number
Edit
This post relates to Windows OS, as I am using 64 bit Windows 7.

Answer 1

I also had a lot of problems to update an existing ionic project. This is what I did to solve the issue:
Remove bower.json from www/lib/ionic
Execute ionic lib update from the source project.
This action will ask for confirmation, just type yes and your project will be updated to the latest version.

Answer 2

You need not touch the bower.json file.
After npm install -g ionic, be in the root folder of your app and run this command:
ionic lib update
This will prompt you if you want to upgrade your project's Ionic version, i.e download and copy the new Ionic libraries.

Answer 3

I upgraded my ionic project from ionic v1.0.1 to v1.1.0 to by upgrading the command line tool with npm and then generating a start project to see what changed. Here's exactly what I did:
npm uninstall -g ionic
npm install -g ionic
Then ionic start tabsAppX tabs to create a starter project. When I compared it to a starter project created from the previous version of ionic, I saw that only the www/lib/ionic folder changed (to the newest version). So I simply copied that into my actual project and ran gulp scss to update my css files.

Answer 4

Here is what I did while using version 1:
Created a new project
Deleted all the content of www folder
Copied all the content of my earlier project
Pasted there in the new project
Make a point while doing ionic start old-project-name --type ionic1 keep the old-project-name to not to cause any problem later on