Asp.net Angular Template application Npm update does not work - node.js

Question

I am trying to follow the documentation found here however it is going well. All of the packages that gets created with the application are out of date such as the #angular/compiler which really the version at the time of this post is 6.0.2 not 4.2.5 as listed below in the generated packages.json.
Things to note.
Angular core 2.1 is installed
Latest version of NPM and Node are installed
Visual Studio 2017 Community is installed
Operating System: Windows 10
With the packages being this out of date there are many angular things I can take advantage of. I have been looking around however I have not found any solutions that work.
Things I have tried:
npm update
npm update -D && npm update -S
npm cache clean
npm install -g #angular/cli#latest
My dependencies:
{
"name": "TestingApp",
"private": true,
"version": "0.0.0",
"scripts": {
"test": "karma start ClientApp/test/karma.conf.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#angular/animations": "4.2.5",
"#angular/common": "4.2.5",
"#angular/compiler": "4.2.5",
"#angular/compiler-cli": "4.2.5",
"#angular/core": "4.2.5",
"#angular/forms": "4.2.5",
"#angular/http": "4.2.5",
"#angular/platform-browser": "4.2.5",
"#angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "4.2.5",
"#angular/platform-server": "4.2.5",
"#angular/router": "4.2.5",
"#ngtools/webpack": "1.5.0",
"#types/chai": "4.0.1",
"#types/jasmine": "2.5.53",
"#types/webpack-env": "1.13.0",
"angular2-router-loader": "0.3.5",
"angular2-template-loader": "0.6.2",
"aspnet-prerendering": "^3.0.1",
"aspnet-webpack": "^2.0.3",
"awesome-typescript-loader": "3.2.1",
"bootstrap": "3.3.7",
"chai": "4.0.2",
"css": "2.2.1",
"css-loader": "0.28.4",
"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": "0.11.2",
"html-loader": "0.4.5",
"isomorphic-fetch": "2.2.1",
"jasmine-core": "2.6.4",
"jquery": "3.2.1",
"json-loader": "0.5.4",
"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",
"preboot": "4.5.2",
"raw-loader": "0.5.1",
"reflect-metadata": "0.1.10",
"rxjs": "5.4.2",
"style-loader": "0.18.2",
"to-string-loader": "1.1.5",
"typescript": "2.4.1",
"url-loader": "0.5.9",
"webpack": "2.5.1",
"webpack-hot-middleware": "2.18.2",
"webpack-merge": "4.1.0",
"zone.js": "0.8.12"
}
}
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