Recently I have been upgrading my projects from Angular 5 to 6. After following the upgrade advice from the Angular Update site, I found that while the project would build, compile, deploy, and lint I could not add new components to my projects. I followed a number of StackExchange and Github articles and found that using the most recent version of Angular 6.0.8. This article had my solution.
In testing, you can also try to add a component with the following command.
ng generate component test2 --project {{projectName}}
In summary, my solution was I has to delete the following snippet from my angular.json file.
"angular-e2e": {
"root": "",
"sourceRoot": "e2e",
"projectType": "application",
"architect": {
"e2e": {
"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:protractor",
"options": {
"protractorConfig": "./protractor.conf.js",
"devServerTarget": "angular:serve"
}
},
"lint": {
"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:tslint",
"options": {
"tsConfig": [
"e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json"
],
"exclude": [
"**/node_modules/**"
]
}
}
}
}
Assuming your project is named angular this may be a quick fix. If your project is named something other than angular then you will need to look for your project name - e2e section.