Why no Angular-CLI generate command for 'model' in Angular Project?

Question

While learning up Angular I just went through the various Angular-CLI commands to generate individual parts of Angular like 'Component', 'Services', 'Interface', 'Pipes', etc.

Generating Angular Items via Angular-CLI

ng g c components/comp-1 //generates component
ng g s services/service-1 // generates service
ng g i interfaces/interface-1 // generates interface

But, I am amazed why there is no generate command for 'Model' (though Interface also does nearly some work -- but model is more powerful as can contain methods also in Class).

Am I missing something or Team-Angular missed on generating a command for 'automatically generating Models' -- as they are at the very core of OOPS Framework.

Reference:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-cli

Answer 1

Because a model is a class, to generate it use --type option like this:

ng generate class hero --type=model

will result in:

hero.model.ts

Answer 2

You cannot generate a model directly. Actually model is a class. ng generate allows only following types to generate by default.

1. appShell
2. application
3. class
4. component
5. directive
6. enum
7. guard
8. interface
9. library
10. module
11. pipe
12. service
13. serviceWorker
14. universal
15. webWorker

So in your case you can use --type option to define a generate classes. Let's assume you want a class like bar.foo.ts

You just have to define it with following option.

ng generate class bar --type=foo

in your case you can define a module with this command

ng generate class nameOfYourModule --type=model

It will generate nameOfYourModule.model.ts

Please refer this official documentation of ng generate options for more informations.

Answer 3

Just run in root of project:

ng generate interface your_model_name --type=model
# or in models folder
ng generate interface models/your_model_name --type=model