fixes #17813

@alan-agius4 it's open for review.

@santoshyadav198613, I’ll review it tomorrow. Thanks.

Hi @santoshyadav198613,

Firstly thanks for the PR 👍.

This changes however doesn't seem to be addressed the problem in the right place. The problem with appDir is actually located in the universal schematic.

In fact, it's right that the app-shell schematic is failing, because app.server.module.ts is not being placed in the specified directory when the appDir is used.

At the very least there are two places that you need to change.

• This folder name https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/tree/master/packages/schematics/angular/universal/files/src/app should be templated

• angular-cli/packages/schematics/angular/universal/files/src/__main@stripTsExtension__.ts.template

  Line 14 in 4d741de

  export { <%= rootModuleClassName %> } from './app/<%= stripTsExtension(rootModuleFileName) %>';

Hi@alan-agius4 ,
So let me understand this correctly, we can use appDir option in appShell only if while running universal schematics we used appDir option, is my understanding correct?

@santoshyadav198613, yes I believe so. The appDir is primarily used by the universal schematic.

We might need to use the path option in the component schematic, but I guess this will be uncovered when creating the UT.

Hi@alan-agius4 ,
Need one help app-shell test case fails it, I thought app-shell runs universal schematics.