Completely removing tests from angular4

Issue

I have built a really small application using angular4. I have the main app component, two subcomponents and one service. I feel like I don't need tests for such a small application and want to remove everything test related to make the project cleaner

So my question is what are all the files I can remove from my project that are related to testing? I already deleted the spec files under my components but what next? Can I delete the src/test.ts, src/tsconfig.spec.js, protractor.conf.js, karma.conf.js and etc? Do I have to modify some configurations if I deleted this?

Also on a side note does angular cli allow to create a new project without all this test related stuff?

Solution

To build a new project without spec files:

ng new --skip-tests true projectname

You can then delete:

• /e2e
• test.ts
• protractor.conf.js
• karma.conf.js

and if you don't want to lint:

• tslint.json

You can also reduce your package.json down to:

{
  "name": "projectname",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "license": "MIT",
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/compiler": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/core": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/forms": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/http": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^4.0.0",
    "@angular/router": "^4.0.0",
    "core-js": "^2.4.1",
    "rxjs": "^5.1.0",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular/cli": "1.0.4",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^4.0.0",
    "@types/node": "~6.0.60",
    "ts-node": "~2.0.0",
    "typescript": "~2.2.0"
  }
}

When generating new components and services you can append it with --spec false to skip test file generation.

Answered By - Z. Bagley