**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
## Overview
`ng generate [name]` generates the specified schematic
## Alias
g - `ng g [name]`
## Available Schematics:
- [class](generate/class)
- [component](generate/component)
- [directive](generate/directive)
- [enum](generate/enum)
- [guard](generate/guard)
- [interface](generate/interface)
- [module](generate/module)
- [pipe](generate/pipe)
- [service](generate/service)
- [appShell](generate/app-shell)
- [application](generate/application)
- [library](generate/library)
- [universal](generate/universal)
## Options
dry-run
--dry-run (alias: -d)
Run through without making any changes.
force
--force (alias: -f)
Forces overwriting of files.