Using angular-cli at the command line, I executed:
ng set defaults.styleExt styl
to set the default styling to Stylus and I got this response:<
For Angular 6 you want to use the following command:
ng config schematics.@schematics/angular:component.styleext styl
This will automatically add the "schematics" section halfer mentioned to the angular.json file.
Here is the official documentation: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/stories-css-preprocessors