How to generate components in a specific folder with Angular CLI?

The ng g component plainsight/some-name makes a new directory when we use it.

The final output will be:

plainsight/some-name/some-name.component.ts

To avoid that, make use of the flat option ng g component plainsight/some-name --flat and it will generate the files without making a new folder

plainsight/some-name.component.ts

There are couple of methods to create component in a specific directory.

Method 1: "Open in Integrated Terminal" - Quick, Simple and Error free method

i.e. You want to create a component in a app/common folder as shown in the image given below, then follow these steps

1. Right click on the folder in which you want to create component.
2. Select option Open in Integrated Terminal or Open in Command Prompt.
3. In new terminal (you'll see your selected path), then type ng g c my-component

Also you can check this process through this image

Method 2: "Copy Relative Path" and Paste on Terminal

1. Right click on folder in which you want to create component
2. From context menu, select Copy Relative Path
3. On termincal, type cd, press space and then ctrl + v to paste the copied path and hit Enter
4. You will see that directory has been changed.

Also you can check this process through this image

Method 3: Type complete path on terminal

i.e. You want to create component in some folder, you type the whole command including path and component name.

ng g c relative-path/my-component

Also you can check this process through this image

Note (method-3): angular will not allow you to create component outside app folder so for component, your base path will be app that's why in my case I had to start with auth/a-component instead of src/app/auth/a-component

ng g c component-name

For specify custom location: ng g c specific-folder/component-name

here component-name will be created inside specific-folder.

Similarl approach can be used for generating other components like directive, pipe, service, class, guard, interface, enum, module, etc.