Nx Commands
The Nx CLI provides many commands. They are organized here into commands that:
There is also a section for separate commands that can create a new Nx workspace for you.
If the command that you pass to Nx is not one of the keywords listed below, it will try to interpret the command as if it were a task. So Nx will parse your command in the following ways and execute the first syntax that is valid.
nx [built-in-command] [...arguments]nx [task-name-for-root-project] [...arguments]nx [task-name] [project-name] [...arguments]
Modify Code
These commands modify your codebase in some way.
init
Adds Nx to any type of workspace. It installs nx, creates an nx.json configuration file and optionally sets up remote caching.
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nx init
nx init
Add to Existing Monorepo
Add to Any Project
Migrate from Angular CLI
add
Install a plugin and initialize it.
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nx add my-plugin
generate
Runs a generator that creates and/or modifies files based on a generator from a plugin.
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nx generate @nx/react:component my-component
migrate
Creates a migrations file or runs migrations from the migrations file.
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nx migrate latest
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nx migrate --run-migrations
repair
Repair any configuration that is no longer supported by Nx.
Specifically, this will run every migration within the nx package against the current repository. Doing so should fix any configuration details left behind if the repository was previously updated to a new Nx version without using nx migrate.
If your repository has only ever updated to newer versions of Nx with nx migrate, running nx repair should do nothing.
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nx repair
connect
Connect an Nx workspace to Nx Cloud
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nx connect
format
Overwrite un-formatted files or check for un-formatted files
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nx format
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nx format:check
Run Tasks
These commands run tasks on your code.
run
Run a target for a project
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nx run my-app:build
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nx build my-app
run-many
Run target for multiple listed projects
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nx run-many --target=build
affected
Run target for affected projects
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nx affected --target=build
exec
Executes any command as if it was a target on the project
1{
2 "scripts": {
3 "build": "nx exec -- node ./my-custom-build.js"
4 }
5}
6watch
Watch for changes within projects, and execute commands
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nx watch --projects=assets -- nx build assets
release
Orchestrate versioning and publishing of applications and libraries
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nx release version
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nx release changelog
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nx release publish
reset
Clears cached Nx artifacts and metadata about the workspace and shuts down the Nx Daemon.
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nx reset
Display Information
show
Show information about the workspace (e.g., list of projects)
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nx show projects
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nx show project my-app
graph
Graph dependencies within workspace
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nx graph
list
Lists installed plugins, capabilities of installed plugins and other available plugins.
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nx list
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nx list my-plugin
report
Reports useful version numbers to copy into the Nx issue template
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nx report
daemon
Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process
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nx daemon
Create Commands
create-nx-workspace
Create a new Nx workspace
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npx create-nx-workspace
create-nx-plugin
Create a new Nx workspace with a preset designed for writing an Nx plugin
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npx create-nx-plugin