CLI generates items in unexpected workspace directories

[drullo]

🐞 Bug report

Command

• generate

Description

In a multi-project workspace, ng generate creates items (components, etc.) based on the current directory, rather than [ProjectRoot]/src/app or [ProjectRoot/src/lib.

In a single-project workspace, the CLI knows to place items inside of src.... However, in a multi-project workspace with a projects/... directory structure, the developer must navigate to src/app or src/lib prior to generating the item, or specify its location, such as:

cd ./projects/app1/src/app
ng generate component component1

or

cd ./projects/app1
ng generate component src/app/component1 -module src/app/app

The expectation would be to navigate to the root of the project, then generate items in the same manner as a single-project workspace, such as:

cd ./projects/app1
ng generate component component1

Ideally, developers would not have to worry about where they are within the project directory structure or having to specify the location of the module (particularly in default module configurations).

🌍 Your Environment

Angular CLI: 12.2.2
Node: 14.16.0
Package Manager: npm 7.21.0
OS: win32 x64

Angular: 12.2.2
... animations, cdk, cli, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core
... forms, material, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... router

Package                         Version
---------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect       0.1202.2
@angular-devkit/build-angular   12.2.2
@angular-devkit/core            12.2.2
@angular-devkit/schematics      12.2.2
@schematics/angular             12.2.2
ng-packagr                      12.2.0
rxjs                            6.6.7
typescript                      4.3.5