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ng add - to refer the add schematic from another npm module

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start at the ng add command and trace how it resolves the add schematic from package-name. Compare the desired nativescript invocation with the current @nativescript/schematics lookup; done means a package can reference an add schematic supplied by another npm module.

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Description

feature feature: insufficient votes
Observed behavior

Currently ng add package-name goes into package-name and looks for an add schematic.
I work on a schematic in @nativescript/schematics.
So, in order to run ng add for it, I need to call ng add @nativescript/schematics
While our main library is nativescript.

Desired behavior

Ideally, I would like to be able to call ng add nativescript, however I can't move my schematics into nativescript repo at the moment.
Perhaps there could be a way to add a reference for @nativescript/schematicstonativescript`.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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