Using angular-cli to generate a components in different source folders.

[bfwg]

MacOS El Capitan
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.21
node: 6.9.2
os: darwin x64

I'm building an Angular2 library for my other Angular2 applications. The library project was build using angular2-webpack-starter. I really like how angular cli works, so I removed all the webpack configs and moved the entire project to use angular cli.
This is my project folder structure. roughly...

my-library-project/
 ├──example/                   * the demo application to showcase how to consume the library
 ├──lib/                       * the library folder
 |   ├──my-library.module.ts   * the library entry module
 |   └──...                    * other library component/files
 ├──angular-cli.json           * cli config file
 ├──tslint.json                * typescript lint config
 ├──typedoc.json               * typescript documentation generator
 ├──tsconfig.json              * config that webpack uses for typescript
 └──package.json               * what npm uses to manage it's dependencies

The example folder is an application to showcase how to import/use the library. So it is essentially an angular2 application.
For the migration, I ran ng init --source-dir example in the my project folder so that cli will point the source folder to example instead of src.

Everything seems to work except:

• I can't generate components outside of example folder, in my case I would like to generate them in the lib folder as well.
• I would like to run my unit tests in the lib folder, but I get the error mentioned in here Can't set test directory outside of folder where test.ts is located in -beta.19 #3077
• ng build --aot or ng serve --aot is giving me the following error, but I get no error while running ng serve or ng build. It is like the webpack AOT config doesn't care about any thing outside of project app folder.

ERROR in ./example/app/example.component.ngfactory.ts
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '../../lib/my-library.component.ngfactory' in '/Users/bfwg/code/my-library/example/app'
 @ ./example/app/example.component.ngfactory.ts 27:0-63
 @ ./example/app/app.module.ngfactory.ts
 @ ./example/main.ts
 @ multi main

[filipesilva]

We don't really support multiple apps at the moment. #1140 is tracking it.

[wKoza]

Hi @bfwg, Are you solved your problem ? I think that I have the same problem : here #5998.

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