I get the error in the subject of this post when I use the CLI to create a new component: ng g c my-component --project=my-project
(No component is created)
I've seen other posts with the same error message, but none of them also include Nrwl/Nx, which I believe is somehow involved. Project started as Ng4 and was upgraded to Ng6.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Thx.
TTE
Environment:
- Angular CLI: 6.0.8
- Node: 8.9.4
- OS: win32 x64
- Angular: 6.0.6
- @angular-devkit/architect 0.6.8
- @angular-devkit/build-angular 0.6.8
- @angular-devkit/build-optimizer 0.6.8
- @angular-devkit/core 0.6.8
- @angular-devkit/schematics 0.6.8
- @angular/cdk 6.3.1
- @angular/cli 6.0.8
- @angular/material 6.3.1
- @ngtools/webpack 6.0.8
- @schematics/angular 0.6.1
- @schematics/update 0.6.8
- rxjs 6.2.1
- typescript 2.7.2
- webpack 4.8.3
- nrwl/nx 6.1.0
UPDATE #1
I tried dropping the --project
flag entirely ( so just ng g c my-component
) and still get the same problem. Not sure what that means, yet.
Quick fix
1) Change current directory in cmd/terminal to src/app
cd src/app
(linux)
cd .\src\app\
(windows)
2) Run commands now
ng g c myComponent
The generate of components aims to do 2 things:
- create source code for the component
- registers the component in a module (by default, in the
app.module.ts
)
The problem is, that you don't have an app.module.ts
. You renamed it to something else, or perhaps even have multiple of them. In that case there are 2 possible solutions:
you do the registration of the component manually. (easiest)
ng g component mycomponent --skip-import
you specify the module with the -m
switch. (might be broken) There is a long thread about it here: https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/526
Run component generation command(ng g c component-name) from where the app.module.ts file is located.
This is pretty weird answer, but the problem occur because I have open my project in the src directory only. Reopening the entire project folder resolves the issue.
I ended up totally deleting node_modules
, clearing out the yarn cache and then running yarn
to reinstall all packages. I also edited my angular.json
file so that my pathing looked like this for all applications and libraries:
"root": "libs/my-lib",
"sourceRoot": "libs/my-lib/src"
I'm not sure which of those fixed the problem, but all appears to be OK now. At least the immediate problem went away.
Hopefully this helps someone else.
TTE
I had the same issue, In angular.json file, I searched for my-project-e2e (replace my-project with your project name)
and then I changed:
"root": ""
to "root": "e2e"
and saved it. Everything was working again.
The solution was specified in this link.
This also happened to me and in my case it was due to me generating a new component outside of the app folder, I bought the new component inside the app folder and the issue was solved.
Your current directory in cmd window matters.
Run this command from the src/app
folder in the project.
It should work.
Had same issue. Turned out to be somehow related to the name of the root component. Renaming back to 'app' resolved the problem
I removed the line "cli": { "defaultCollection": "@nativescript/schematics" }
from angular.json file and it worked for me.