Split `angular.json` into multiple files

[developer239]

🚀 Feature request

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Description

I have a monorepository and I want to split my angular.json into separate files.

So that I can have something like this:

{
  "version": 2,
  "projects": {
    "module-auth": "packages/auth",
    "module-core": "packages/core",
    "module-button": "packages/button"
  }
}

After working with NX I noticed that with Lerna and the usual setup my angular.json file has 119 lines of code even though I basically have an empty repository. I believe that having a single angular.json file is a very bad idea, especially for bigger monorepositories or UI libraries.

Describe the solution you'd like

Make the JSON configuration 1:1 with what NX does or implement similar functionality.

[alan-agius4]

Splitting angular.json into multiple projects level configuration is something that we definitly want to explore in the future.

However, it is very unlikely that it will 1:1 with the NX solution.

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[Den-dp]

I think that such functionality will lead to a win-win situation for both Angular and Nx.

• ng cli users will get more intuitive and fast code locating
• nx cli team will get an opportunity to adopt the new native approach of splitting angular.json (and remove some hacks related to v2 schema)

cc: @vsavkin

[developer239]

@Den-dp I will share this issue with more people maybe it will get at least into the consideration list. I have no idea why would anyone dislike this and I would like to hear counterarguments. 😅

Personally, if I had to work on a monorepo with Angular and without nx I would write a custom script that would build the angular.json file the way I described.

[srukshan98]

It is essential to address this in Angular now, especially with the advent of native federation, which simplifies the process of working on microfrontends within Angular workspaces. Managing a large angular.json file in this context is neither ideal nor efficient and can become quite cumbersome.