Angular 6.0.1 CLI throws “Architect” error on “ng lint --type-check” execution

Question

After the Angular and Angular CLI update to v6, my lint configuration is throwing the following error everytime I try to run ng lint --type-check :

Architect commands with multiple targets cannot specify overrides. 'lint' would be run on the following projects: atlas-fe,atlas-fe-e2e

Error: Architect commands with multiple targets cannot specify overrides. 'lint' would be run on the following projects: atlas-fe,atlas-fe-e2e
at LintCommand.validate (/home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/architect-command.js:75:23)
at /home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:274:39
at Generator.next ()
at /home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:7:71
at new Promise ()
at __awaiter (/home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:3:12)
at validateAndRunCommand (/home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:273:12)
at Object. (/home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:100:26)
at Generator.next ()
at fulfilled (/home/nroma/workspace/atlas/proto-fe/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/command-runner.js:4:58)

I'm using node v9.9.0 (npm v6.0.1) .

This is my package.json :

{
  "name": "atlas-fe",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "license": "MIT",
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build",
    "test": "ng test",
    "lint": "npm run lint-ts && npm run lint-css",
    "lint-ts": "npm run format-ts && ng lint --type-check",
    "lint-css": "npm run format-css && stylelint \"src/**/*.{scss,css}\"",
    "format": "npm run format-ts && npm run format-css",
    "format-ts": "clang-format -i --glob=\"{src,e2e}/**/*.{js,ts}\"",
    "format-css": "stylefmt -c .stylelintrc -r \"src/**/*.{scss,css}\"",
    "e2e": "ng e2e",
    "precommit": "npm run lint"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/cdk": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/common": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/core": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/flex-layout": "6.0.0-beta.15",
    "@angular/forms": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/http": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/material": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/router": "^6.0.1",
    "core-js": "^2.4.1",
    "fuse.js": "^3.2.0",
    "rxjs": "^6.1.0",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.14"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^0.6.1",
    "@angular/cli": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^6.0.1",
    "@angular/language-service": "^6.0.1",
    "@types/jasmine": "~2.5.53",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.2",
    "@types/node": "~6.0.60",
    "clang-format": "^1.2.2",
    "codelyzer": "^4.1.0",
    "husky": "^0.14.3",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.6.2",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.1.0",
    "karma": "~1.7.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.1.1",
    "karma-cli": "~1.0.1",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^1.2.1",
    "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.0",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "node-sass": "^4.5.3",
    "protractor": "~5.1.2",
    "stylefmt": "^6.0.0",
    "stylelint-config-recommended": "^1.0.0",
    "ts-node": "~3.2.0",
    "tslint": "~5.7.0",
    "typescript": "~2.7.2"
  }
}

Answer 1

It seems the CLI now defines two apps for your: your-site and your-site-e2e. Running ng lint implicitly runs both by adding the two project names after the command somewhere under the hood.

However, if you add the --type-check flag to your command the implicit result becomes ng lint --type-check your-site your-site-e2e which is an invalid order of arguments.

To fix it change the following line:

"lint-ts": "npm run format-ts && ng lint --type-check",

to the explicit variant:

"lint-ts": "npm run format-ts && ng lint atlas-fe atlas-fe-e2e --type-check",

There is an open issue about this on the angular-cli github but so far not much activity.

Answer 2

I finally found a solution to this problem. You need to specify the target for the lint command which is both the project & the project-e2e . So in my case I had this object in my script:

"ng": "ng",
"start": "ng serve",
"build": "ng build --prod ",
"test": "ng test",
"lint": "ng lint --force ",

I just changed the lint line :

    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build --prod",
    "lint": "ng lint --force name-project name-project-e2e",