Alternative lookup convention for `ng-add` schematics
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Description
It would be nice to be able to externalize schematics from the package specified in the `ng add` command.
`ng add ionic` requires us to include schematics within the `ionic` package itself, which is not ideal for several reasons:
- **Separation of Concerns**. The `ionic` package isn't necessarily for Angular, but `ng add ionic` looks good 👌
- **Complication of the build within our main package.** Including the schematics in our main package would require including _a lot_ of the Angular DevKit into the build.
- **Slow "add".** It requires installing the entire package and all its dependencies (~38M) in a sandbox just to use a few files from the package.
In slack I believe we concluded that the best solution might be to have the `ng-add` field within `package.json` be allowed to point to another package.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the `ng add` command and the `ng-add` field in `package.json`; review how the specified package is currently used for schematics. Done means an `ng-add` entry can point to another package, allowing schematics to be externalized from the package named in the command.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100