index.ts file not being created when a component is created

[rajinder-yadav]

Please provide us with the following information:

OS?

Linux flow 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Versions.

$ ng --version
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.16
node: 6.6.0
os: linux x64

Repro steps.

ng g c TestComponent

Mention any other details that might be useful.

I no longer see index.ts file?

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[deebloo]

index.ts files are no longer generated since the move to NgModule. At the moment if you want to use barrels you have to manage them yourself.

[rajinder-yadav]

Would be nice to have a switch :) for those who don't want to do it manually.

[filipesilva]

The CLI follows the style-guide, and the recommendation changed to not have index.ts files overall.

Reexporting is still useful, and we still generate ./src/index.ts and ./src/shared/index.ts on ng new, but we don't do that for other generators.

[speed-of-light]

hi @filipesilva
Could you provide the source of where in the style-guide shows index.ts is recommended not to have? I'd like to know more detail about it. Thanks.

[filipesilva]

@speed-of-light it is not that the style guide recommends that one does not use index.ts files, but rather that it used to recommend you have it and now it doesn't.

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