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**Documentation below is for CLI version 6. For version 7 see [here](https://angular.io/cli/generate)**.

# ng generate service

## Overview
`ng generate service [name]` generates a service

## Alias
s - `ng generate s [name]`

## Options
<details>
  <summary>dry-run</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--dry-run</code> (alias: <code>-d</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Run through without making any changes.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>force</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--force</code> (alias: <code>-f</code>)
  </p>
  <p>
    Forces overwriting of files.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>project</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--project</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    The name of the project.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>flat</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--flat</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    Flag to indicate if a dir is created.
  </p>
</details>
<details>
  <summary>spec</summary>
  <p>
    <code>--spec</code>
  </p>
  <p>
    Specifies if a spec file is generated.
  </p>
</details>
