Support for third-party generator blueprints

[mischkl]

I actually have no experience with this feature on Ember, but I see that ember-cli has it and I think would be a great boon to angular-cli: the ability for the user to generate code from their own blueprints, or to use third party ones installed via npm. I guess this could be part of the "add-ons" functionality I've heard rumors about. ;)

Example use cases would be generating routes for UI-Router, generating stores for ngrx or Redux, generating GraphQL endpoints for use with angular2-apollo, generating style guides or other kinds of documentation, and on and on - the imagination of the GitHub community would be the limit. :)

Note: I realize Yeoman can already accommodate some use cases, but it's not really designed to deal with existing projects, it can't use/extend the angular-cli API, and in all likelihood anyone using angular-cli won't give it a second look.

[filipesilva]

This is on our radar for the addon system actually.

[mischkl]

@filipesilva awesome, glad to hear it. :)

[christopherthielen]

I'd like to add support for routing with ui-router-ng2. What are the current ideas for how third party support might be implemented?

[filipesilva]

Heya @christopherthielen! There isn't a public plan available for third party blueprints yet. It's mostly a post 1.0 concern at the moment.

I think the best you can do currently is provide some instructions on how to modify a newly generated project to use ui-router-ng2. Let me know if you have any trouble doing it.

[CesarD]

Any news on this matter?
Is it being actively worked on or still in the drawer?

[filipesilva]

Support for custom blueprints was added in #7090, available in 1.4.0-beta.1 and up. It's based on @angular-devkit/schematics: https://github.com/angular/devkit/tree/master/packages/schematics/angular.

We don't yet have documentation and examples of how you can make your own but @Brocco is working on it.