TypeScript 2.x By Example

ng new – flags and customization

In the previous section, we created our Trello app with the default flag. Apart from a skip-install flag which tells the CLI not to run npm install the packages, all other flags were taken with a default value. If you run the ng new --help command, you will see there are many flags which can be configured when generating an application. Let's look briefly at these flags:

• dry run: This tells the CLI whether we want to generate the files or just list the files which would be generated. This command is very helpful if we just want to check which files and folders will be created by the CLI rather than actually creating them. This command is normally used when you are trying multiple configurations to see which ...