How to perform standalone migration in multi-workspace (with Angular schematics)

Question

In a multi-project Angular repo, I could not manage to get the @angular/core:standalone-schematics to work (this allows an automatic conversion of module-based components to standalone components).

client
  projects
    proj1
    proj2

When I run ng generate @angular/core:standalone, no matter what my working directory is, no matter what I answer to "Which path in your project should be migrated?", I always end up with the error

Could not find any files to migrate under the path /Users/hoeni/Work/client/projects/... Cannot run the standalone migration.

The absolute path shown in the error message is correct and matches the chosen directory.

Any ideas why this is not working here?

Answer 1

I know this is an older post, hoping you found an answer by now, but I believe you need to use the relative path to your project root, not the absolute.

In my case, I was converting a specific directory, and I couldn't use the ng command since my workspace was using nx... so I had to use npx nx g @angular/core:standalone --path=<relative_path>