Add flag to remove boilerplate HTML in the app.component.html

[johnpapa]

Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an x)

[ x ] feature request

Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.1.1
node: 8.0.0
os: darwin x64
@angular/animations: 4.1.3
@angular/common: 4.1.3
@angular/compiler: 4.1.3
@angular/core: 4.1.3
@angular/forms: 4.1.3
@angular/http: 4.1.3
@angular/platform-browser: 4.1.3
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.1.3
@angular/router: 4.1.3
@angular/cli: 1.1.1
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.1.3
@angular/language-service: 4.1.3

Repro steps.

ng new foo

Desired functionality.

I like that the new CLI behavior adds some links for new users in the app.component.html. However, once a user has more experience with the CLI it would be helpful to be able to set a global setting to disable this for all future projects (or one off projects).

I propose a flag --welcome that defaults to true. When set to false this trims down the app.component.html to a minimal amount (possibly the <h3> and <router-outlet> for routing apps).

Then ng set defaults.welcome false and ng set defaults.welcome false --global could be used to disable it for more experienced user of the CLI.

Maybe this is something a community member to contribute, if the CLI team is open to it.

It's not a huge issue, but I still think it is worth it given the importance of not creating code that is not needed (see the new proposed --minimal flag).

[gioragutt]

So basically, when the flag is turned on, the logo and the useful links appear, otherwise there will only be the Welcome to {{title}} and the <router-outlet></router-outlet>, as it was before the change.

I've myself seen the code of --minimal, and my entire contribution so far is to new mostly, so I wouldn't mind implementing it if the change is accepted.

[deebloo]

The boiler plate makes sense when a new user first starts poking around so makes sense to be the default but having an option to imediatly not having to delete code after project creation is nice

[alan-agius4]

Closing since there was little to no interest from the community around this feature request in almost 4 years.