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**Documentation below is for CLI version 6 and we no longer accept PRs to improve this. For version 7 see [here](https://angular.io/cli/generate)**.

# ng generate application

## Overview
`ng generate application [name]` creates an Angular application.

## Alias
app - `ng generate app [name]`

## Options
<details>
  <summary>dry-run</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--dry-run</code> (alias: <code>-d</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Run through without making any changes.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>force</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--force</code> (alias: <code>-f</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Forces overwriting of files.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>inline-style</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--inline-style</code> (alias: <code>-s</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Specifies if the style will be in the ts file.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>inline-template</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--inline-template</code> (alias: <code>-t</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Specifies if the template will be in the ts file.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>view-encapsulation</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--view-encapsulation</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    Specifies the view encapsulation strategy.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>routing</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--routing</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    Generates a routing module.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>prefix</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--prefix</code> (alias: <code>-p</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    The prefix to apply to generated selectors.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>style</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--style</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    The file extension to be used for style files.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>skip-tests</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--skip-tests</code> (alias: <code>-S</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Skip creating spec files.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>skip-package-json</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--skip-package-json</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    Do not add dependencies to package.json.
  </p>
</details>
