When I use yeoman init angular:allto bootstrap my app, yeoman uses the name of the directory I'm calling it from as the name of the main application .js file. I.e. if I'm running the command in /Users/myusername/dev/projects/my-angular-app, then the file app/scripts/my-angular-app.js is created as the main .js file for the app.
If I simply rename the root directory, then using Yeoman to add routes won't work, as it can no longer find the .js file it created. I've tried adding the name of the app as a parameter when invoking the Yeoman init command, but that doesn't work.
I've tried doing the init command in a directory with the name I want the app to have, and then renaming the directory afterwards. But it seems Yeoman reads the name of that directory every time it's invoked, so after changing the name of the directory, Yeoman is no longer able to create routes for me as it can't find the .js file with the same name as the root directory.
How can I make Yeoman use a different name for the my-angular-app.js file?
There's an open ticket about it, please weigh in your thoughts there.
I am not sure if this is possible but you might want to have a look at the Gruntfile.js and replace all the instances in the config were it is storing the old path and replace it with the new path. I am not sure if that will work as I have never tried but it might based on my understanding of Grunt.
I am like you, I like to have things named the way I want which why I don't use Yeoman even though I would love to (like they say, it is opinionated, just too opinionated for me), I have a few custom built grunt tasks that give me most of the functionality I need (mainly auto compile of SASS/TypeScript, minifying CSS/JS, and concating CSS/JS files).
The issue is with generator-angular.
Currently, the app name is taken from the bower component.json file. If you are using the more recent convention of naming this file bower.json, the app name will fall back to the directory name.
Rename bower.json to component.json until support for the new naming scheme makes it into generator-angular.
It looks like these changes have already been made but have yet to be merged into the master branch: renaming-deprecated-component_json