Feature Request: Allow to generate libraries within a particular folder & allow to rename 'projects' folder name

[micronyks]

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Desired functionality

Currently It is not possible to generate a library within a specific folder with relative path.
When I run ng generate library mylib --prefix=mylib command, it generates a folder called projects under root directory and places mylib under projects

Current Flow,

|---MyFoodApplication
|                    |---projects
|                                |---mylib-1
|                                |---mylib-2
|                    |---src

Sometimes use-case can be like:

1. Create all libraries under common folder resides at (anywhere) angular project's root directory. (common is just a folder and nothing else)

2. When I want to create any library, It should create desire name of the folder (eg. companyname-libraries) which must contain all generated library.

So, the final output should be like below,

|---MyFoodApplication
|                    |---common
|                              |---companyname-libraries
|                                                       |---mylib-1
|                                                       |---mylib-2
|                    |---src

[jorroll]

Obviously this isn't ideal, but I work around this issue by simply updating the angular.json "newProjectRoot" property to be whatever I want for the project I'm generating at that moment.

In general, I keep it at the project root for my libraries (because I generate more of those) and I temporarily change it to the project root for my apps when I need to generate a new app (and then immediately change it back to my libraries' project root).

[micronyks]

@thefliik I have already done it but it should not be a manual process ! That's why I've added this as a feature request.

[emirhg]

It's been two years and this issue remains open. I'll like to work on it as I'll find it very useful on a current project. So far I've identified the involved line:

angular-cli/packages/schematics/angular/library/index.ts

Line 153 in 9ee905d

const newProjectRoot = workspace.extensions.newProjectRoot as (string | undefined) || '';

I'm thinking on a CLI argument like ng generate library my-lib --newProjectRoot=my-prefix-path in order to be consistent with the JSON config file. Would love to read your comments about it

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