rename feature-routing.module.ts to feature.routing.ts

[progral]

Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an x)

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- [ ] feature request

Repro steps.

ng g m product-admin --routing

will produce
product-admin.module.ts
product-admin-routing.module.ts

Current Problem

Angular cli creates a module with product-admin.module and a module with product-admin-routing.module. This looks odd because it creates product-admin.component, product-admin.service, and so on. Perhaps it looks not only odd but is even wrong, because the complete angular world names with schema my-very-awesome-feature.[technical].ts like product-admin.state.ts, product-admin.actions.ts, product-admin.models.ts. Thats why product-admin.routing.ts should the correct way.

I know the routing module is a module - but it is only used for routing so it is not a classic "module". Thats why we need not name it "module".

I guess the naming comes from an early routing tutorial on angular.io. They named it hero-routing.module.ts there. That was just a quick example, how we could do it. Nevertheless most of the world outside named their routing module just feature.routing.ts. Some tools do it also. E.g. vscode-material-icons mark files with *.routing.ts as an angular routing file.

Desired functionality.

ng g m product-admin --routing

will produce
product-admin.module.ts
product-admin.routing.ts

[progral]

Is there any workaround for this. Can not imagine that noone cares. The default in almost all projects is feature.routing.ts. Do all of them rename it by hand?

[devoto13]

You should be able to change it by using custom schematics. But custom schematics feature does not seem to be very documented... #7627

Also see -c flag in ng generate command - https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/generate.

[alan-agius4]

Hi @xipheCom, thanks for this feature request.

As mentioned by @devoto13, you can create custom module schematic that use @schematics/angular module schematic and change the file name to .routing.

Changing the default module schematic to generate a .routing suffix will break a lot of online courses, documentations and style guides.

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