Move dependencies from main project to subproject?

Sujan12 · August 30, 2017, 1:36pm

One very confusing thing in Ionic projects is that all the individual dependencies are part of the main project:

ionic-team/ionic2-app-base/blob/master/package.json#L15-L31


"@angular/common": "5.0.0",
"@angular/compiler": "5.0.0",
"@angular/compiler-cli": "5.0.0",
"@angular/core": "5.0.0",
"@angular/forms": "5.0.0",
"@angular/http": "5.0.0",
"@angular/platform-browser": "5.0.0",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "5.0.0",
"@ionic-native/core": "4.3.2",
"@ionic-native/splash-screen": "4.3.2",
"@ionic-native/status-bar": "4.3.2",
"@ionic/storage": "2.1.3",
"ionic-angular": "3.9.2",
"ionicons": "3.0.0",
"rxjs": "5.5.2",
"sw-toolbox": "3.6.0",
"zone.js": "0.8.18"

Now long time Ionic users know that these are mostly “bundled” together and only are updated in bulk. So all Angular dependencies move, all Ionic Native dependencies are bumped and so on.

Is there a way to move these out of the main Ionic project into another “sub project” or container that collects these? Then one could version these matching to ionic-angular and managing these would become a lot easier…

Or am I missing something here?