What is the best way to delete a component with CLI

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Jus10 picture Jus10 · Dec 28, 2016 · Viewed 371.5k times · Source

I tried using "ng destroy component foo" and it tells me "The destroy command is not supported by Angular-CLI"

How do we properly delete components with Angular CLI?

Answer

Brocco picture Brocco · Dec 28, 2016

destroy or something similar may come to the CLI, but it is not a primary focus at this time. So you will need to do this manually.

Delete the component directory (assuming you didn't use --flat) and then remove it from the NgModule in which it is declared.

If you are unsure of what to do, I suggest you have a "clean" app meaning no current git changes. Then generate a component and see what is changed in the repo so you can backtrack from there what you will need to do to delete a component.

Update

If you're just experimenting about what you want to generate, you can use the --dry-run flag to not produce any files on disk, just see the updated file list.

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