What is Nx?

🔎 Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos.

Nx Helps You

Develop like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft

Nx helps scale your development from one team building one application to many teams building multiple frontend and backend applications all in the same workspace. When using Nx, developers have a holistic dev experience powered by an advanced CLI (with editor plugins), capabilities for controlled code sharing and consistent code generation.

Use Intelligent Build System with Distributed Caching

Nx is smart. It analyzes your workspace and figures out what can be affected by every code change. That's why Nx doesn't rebuild and retest everything on every commit--it only rebuilds what is necessary.

Nx also uses a distributed computation cache. If someone has already built or tested similar code, Nx will use their results to speed up the command for everyone else instead of rebuilding or retesting the code from scratch. This, in combination with Nx’s support for distributed and incremental builds, can help teams see up to 10x reduction in build and test times.

Use Modern Tools

Nx is an open platform with plugins for many modern tools and frameworks. It has support for TypeScript, React, Angular, Cypress, Jest, Prettier, Nest.js, Next.js, Storybook, Ionic among others. With Nx, you get a consistent dev experience regardless of the tools used.

Getting Started

Creating an Nx Workspace

Using npx

npx create-nx-workspace

Using npm init

npm init nx-workspace

Using yarn create

yarn create nx-workspace

The create-nx-workspace command will ask you to select a preset, which will configure some plugins and create your applications to help you get started.

? What to create in the new workspace (Use arrow keys)
❯ empty             [an empty workspace with a layout that works best for building apps]
  oss               [an empty workspace with a layout that works best for open-source projects]
  web components    [a workspace with a single app built using web components]
  angular           [a workspace with a single Angular application]
  angular-nest      [a workspace with a full stack application (Angular + Nest)]
  react             [a workspace with a single React application]
  react-express     [a workspace with a full stack application (React + Express)]
  next.js           [a workspace with a single Next.js application]

Select the preset that works best for you. You can always add plugins later.

? Workspace name (e.g., org name)     happyorg
? What to create in the new workspace web components    [a workspace with a single app built using web components]
? Application name                    myapp
? Default stylesheet format           CSS

If it's your first Nx project, the command will recommend you to install @nrwl/cli globally, so you can invoke nx directly without going through yarn or npm.

Serving Application

Run nx serve myapp to serve the newly generated application!
Run nx test myapp to test it.
Run nx e2e myapp-e2e to run e2e tests for it.

Angular users can also run ng g/serve/test/e2e.

You are good to go!

Documentation

Nx Documentation and Guides

Quick Start Videos

Angular

React

Courses

Talks

React Development At Scale (React Vancouver Virtual Meetup), Jack Hsu (May 27, 2020)
Scalable React Development (React Summit Remote Edition), Jason Jean (April 17, 2020)
Slides: https://prezi.com/view/fm9sUbR7vbr5fZlO9C8D/
Beyond Basics: Scaling Development across Large Teams (Angular Rome Meetup online), Juri Strumpflohner (April 2, 2020)
Develop like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook with Nx - Dev Nexus, Jason Jean (February 18, 2020)
Enhancing the workspace with Custom Builders - AngularToronto, Benjamin Cabanes (February 18, 2020)
Advanced Nx - Angular Air, Isaac Mann (February 5th, 2020)
Teach Me Anything - HackFlix - Isaac Mann (January 9th, 2020)

E2E Testing at Half the Cost - NG-BE 2019, Isaac Mann (Dev 10, 2019)
Sneak Peek of New Nx Workspace Course - ngHouston, Isaac Mann (Nov 27, 2019)
Building Large Angular Apps - ngBucharest, Isaac Mann (March 30, 2019)
- Slides: https://prezi.com/view/jglXvEfeqnjEr4l2L11h/
Modern Development with Angular CLI & Nrwl Nx, Victor Savkin at ngAtlanta (Feb 5, 2019)
Supercharging the Angular CLI - ngVikings, James Henry (March 10, 2018)
Hands on Full Stack development with Nx and Bazel - ngConf, Alex Eagle, Torgeir Helgevold (April 19, 2018)
Angular at Large Organizations - ngConf, Victor Savkin(April 20, 2018)
Building Large Angular Apps Successfully with Nx - AngularNYC Meetup, Jason Jean (December 19, 2018)

Nx: The New Way to Build Enterprise Angular Apps - Angular Mix, Jeff Cross & Victor Savkin (October 11, 2017)

Podcasts and Shows

Nx Plugins - ngHouston, Wes Grimes and Jon Cammisuli (April 8 2020)
Apollo GQL, Angular & Nx - ngHouston, Philip Fulcher (Feb 26, 2020)
Teach Me Anything - With Isaac Mann from Nrwl, Isaac Mann (Jan 9, 2020)
Sneak Peek of New Nx Workspace Course - ngHouston, Isaac Mann (Nov 27, 2019)
React Roundup: Nx and Monorepos, Victor Savkin (Oct 1, 2019)
Nx and Angular CLI - Adventures in Angular, Brandon Roberts (Aug 27th 2019)
ngHouston: NX Demo (Dec 7, 2017)
ngAir 140: Nx for Enterprise Angular Development, Victor Savkin (Dec 12, 2017)

Nx Demo & Tutorial Videos

Books and Blogs

High Quality React apps with Nx & Cypress (April 2020)
Shell Library patterns with Nx and Monorepo Architectures (March 2020)

Tiny Angular application projects in Nx workspaces (March 2020)

Misc

nx-examples repo has branches for different nx comments to display expected behavior and example app and libraries. Check out the branch (workspace, ngrx...) to see what gets created for you. More info on readme.
xplat - Cross-platform tools for Nx workspaces