Bypass nx generate @nx/angular:library "You can't specify both a directory and a name with a directory path"

[urielzen]

Current Behavior

I am trying to create an Angular library named service/auth in directory libs/service/auth.

This gives me the following error

You can't specify both a directory (libs/service/auth) and a name with a
directory path (service/auth).
Please specify either a directory or a name with a directory path.

I then change the name of the library to service-auth as well as the directory to libs/service-auth. And that works with no problem.

But then I can bypass the initial validation error above by moving the newly created library. Using both the directory and name that I wanted originally. And I get no errors.

I end up with this in the tsconfig.base.json

"@lf/service/auth": ["libs/service/auth/src/index.ts"],

Expected Behavior

I would expect the validation error to be consistent between creating a library and moving it.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

See above

Nx Report

Node   : 18.17.1
   OS     : win32-x64
   npm    : 8.11.0
   
   nx (global)        : 17.1.3
   nx                 : 17.2.0
   @nx/js             : 17.2.0
   @nx/jest           : 17.2.0
   @nx/linter         : 17.2.0
   @nx/eslint         : 17.2.0
   @nx/workspace      : 17.2.0
   @nx/angular        : 17.2.0
   @nx/cypress        : 17.2.0
   @nx/devkit         : 17.2.0
   @nx/eslint-plugin  : 17.2.0
   @nrwl/tao          : 17.2.0
   @nx/web            : 17.2.0
   @nx/webpack        : 17.2.0
   typescript         : 5.2.2
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:
   @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome : 0.14.0
   @ngrx/component-store            : 17.0.1
   @ngrx/signals                    : 17.0.1

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[leosvelperez]

Thanks for reporting this!

Please note that a name of service/auth won't be allowed for the logical name of a project. Path segments are only allowed if you have scoped package names (e.g. @acme/my-project-name). When providing a path in the name (like service/auth), Nx project generators treat it as the directory and use the last segment (or anything after a @) as the project name. That's why you can't provide both a directory and a project name containing path segments.

As you pointed out, there's a bug in the move generator that's allowing that, which it's not consistent with the project generation. In the case of the move generator, the --newProjectName option won't allow providing path segments (unless it's a scoped package name) because the destination is a required option and will already contain the directory.

I'll push a fix for that.

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