How do i use Angular CLI inside a dockerized app?

Is there a way to use CLI commands when developing on dockerized instances i connect remotely to?

I work with a monolith and connect to the codebase remotely, where i run docker instances for our frontends.

Right now Imade a local build with newest angular, because we intend to upgrade incrementally and we want to introduce this version and develop new features on it as well as migrate old features on it over time.

I want to use Angular CLI to generate the boilerplate for the new components, but I am not sure how to use it in this setup, builds networks and backend are not my strengths.

This is how i setup [ Dockerfile ]

FROM node:18.20-alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json .

RUN npm install -g @angular/cli
RUN npm install

COPY . .
EXPOSE 4200 49153

CMD npm run start
CMD ['ng']


[ compose.yaml ]

services:
docker-beta-3:
build: .
ports:
- 4200:4200
- 49153:49153
volumes:
- "/app/node_modules"
- ".:/app"


I've tried using this to access the shell and run my "ng generate component comp1" there, but it doesn't recognize the "ng"

I can run the command when being in the right folder, but that's just what I have installed locally and I get that

docker exec -it 0bd974419cae sh

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