feature require: option of source directory

[PoiScript]

I'm trying to build an ionic app alongside with an existing project that also contains src/. In order not to mess up the original structure, I don't want to put my ionic code in src/ but ionic/.

However, there seems like not such option on ionic-cli that configures which directory to be the source code directory. :(

[imhoffd]

@PoiScript This becomes quite tough as Ionic integrates with a plethora of existing tools that expect a certain directory structure. For now, I highly recommend creating a new repo for your Ionic project.

[PoiScript]

@dwieeb Think you for your quick response 👍. Creating a new repo was the first thing that came through my mind. But there're some services in the existing angular-cli project that I want to share with ionic. Creating a new repo meaning creating a third repo for this sharing part, which is what I don't want to see.

For now, I'm keeping ionic in a low-level directory and it works fine. But I'm glad that ionic-cli can have the ability to change to location of source directory. :)

[imhoffd]

@PoiScript Can you help me understand your use case a bit more? You want to basically share code from an existing non-Ionic project, correct?

[PoiScript]

@dwieeb yes, you're right. It was an angular-cli project. What I want to do it share some services (called provider in ionic) between the website built with angular-cli and the app built with ionic-cli. These services is used to connect with the back-end using HttpClientModule. If they work in angular, they should work with ionic.

Also some components will be shared, but I'm not sure if angular material can work properly in ionic.

[imhoffd]

@PoiScript Understood, thanks! I think this feature request relates to some others I've tied together in this mega issue: #2232

Please let's continue the discussion there.