ng add - please specify a project name

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
cli, frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the ng add @angular/material myapp flow in a workspace containing both mylibrary and myapp, then trace the ng add command entry point. Done means the command accepts a project name and configures myapp for Angular Material instead of only installing the package.

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Description

area: @angular/cli feature feature: insufficient votes
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Angular CLI: 6.0.5
Node: 10.1.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 6.0.3
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                            Version
------------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect          0.6.5
@angular-devkit/build-angular      0.6.5
@angular-devkit/build-ng-packagr   0.6.5
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer    0.6.5
@angular-devkit/core               0.6.5
@angular-devkit/schematics         0.6.5
@angular/cli                       6.0.5
@angular/material                  6.1.0
@ngtools/json-schema               1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack                   6.0.5
@schematics/angular                0.6.5
@schematics/update                 0.6.5
ng-packagr                         3.0.0-rc.5
rxjs                               6.2.0
typescript                         2.7.2
webpack                            4.8.3
Repro steps
  • Step 1
    starting a new project with ng new angular-project
  • Step 2
    generate a library/application inside the new angular-cli project
    ng g library mylibrary
    ng g application myapp
    
  • Step 3
    Add @angular/material
    ng add @angular/material myapp
    Installing packages for tooling via npm.
    Multiple projects are defined; please specify a project name
    
Observed behavior

@angular/material gets correclty installed in the node dependencies but the myapp project is not configured for using the library.

Desired behavior

The current ng add usage is: usage: ng add <collection>
Ideally this should allow passing the target app like this:

usage: ng add <collection> [options]
options:
  --project
      The name of the project.
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