Create component to specific module with Angular-CLI
To create a component as part of a module you should
ng g module newModule
to generate a module,cd newModule
to change directory into thenewModule
folderng g component newComponent
to create a component as a child of the module.
UPDATE: Angular 9
Now it doesn't matter what folder you are in when generating the component.
ng g module NewMoudle
to generate a module.ng g component new-module/new-component
to create NewComponent.
Note: When the Angular CLI sees new-module/new-component, it understands and translates the case to match new-module -> NewModule and new-component -> NewComponent. It can get confusing in the beginning, so easy way is to match the names in #2 with the folder names for the module and component.
ng g component nameComponent --module=app.module.ts
Not sure if maybe Alexander Ciesielski's answer was correct at the time of writing, but I can verify that this no longer works. It doesn't matter which directory in the project you run the Angular CLI. If you type
ng g component newComponent
it will generate a component and import it into the app.module.ts file
The only way you can use CLI to automatically import it into another module is by specifying
ng g component moduleName/newComponent
where moduleName is a module you've already defined in your project. If the moduleName doesn't exist, it'll put the component in moduleName/newComponent directory but still import it into app.module