Building React Apps in an Nx Monorepo

In this tutorial you'll learn how to use React with Nx in a monorepo (integrated) setup.

What will you learn?

  • how to create a new React application
  • how to run a single task (i.e. serve your app) or run multiple tasks in parallel
  • how to leverage code generators to scaffold components
  • how to modularize your codebase and impose architectural constraints for better maintainability
  • how to speed up CI with Nx Cloud ⚡
Looking for a React standalone app?

Note, this tutorial sets up a repo with applications and libraries in their own subfolders. If you are looking for a React standalone app setup then check out our React standalone app tutorial.

Why Use an Integrated Monorepo?

An integrated monorepo is a repository configured with a set of features that work together toward the goal of allowing developers to focus on building features rather than the configuration, coordination and maintenance of the tooling in the repo.

You'll notice that instead of using npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, projects within the repository are linked using typescript path aliases that are defined in the tsconfig.base.json file. Also, since we're creating projects using Nx plugin generators, all new projects come preconfigured with useful tools like Prettier, ESLint and Jest.

Nx Plugins are optional packages that extend the capabilities of Nx, catering to various specific technologies. For instance, we have plugins tailored to React (e.g., @nx/react), Vite (@nx/vite), Cypress (@nx/cypress), and more. These plugins offer additional features, making your development experience more efficient and enjoyable when working with specific tech stacks.

Features of an integrated monorepo:

Visit our "Why Nx" page for more details.

Final Code

Here's the source code of the final result for this tutorial.

Example repository/nrwl/nx-recipes/tree/main/react-monorepo

Creating a new React Monorepo

Create a new React monorepo with the following command:

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npx create-nx-workspace@latest react-monorepo --preset=react-monorepo

1 2NX Let's create a new workspace [https://nx.dev/getting-started/intro] 3 4✔ Application name · react-store 5✔ Which bundler would you like to use? · vite 6✔ Test runner to use for end to end (E2E) tests · cypress 7✔ Default stylesheet format · css 8✔ Which CI provider would you like to use? · GitHub Actions 9

Let's name the initial application react-store. In this tutorial we're going to use vite as a bundler, cypress for e2e tests and css for styling. We'll talk more about how Nx integrates with GitHub Actions later in the tutorial. The above command generates the following structure:

1└─ react-monorepo 2 ├─ ... 3 ├─ apps 4 │ ├─ react-store 5 │ │ ├─ public 6 │ │ │ └─ ... 7 │ │ ├─ src 8 │ │ │ ├─ app 9 │ │ │ │ ├─ app.module.css 10 │ │ │ │ ├─ app.spec.tsx 11 │ │ │ │ ├─ app.tsx 12 │ │ │ │ └─ nx-welcome.tsx 13 │ │ │ ├─ assets 14 │ │ │ ├─ main.tsx 15 │ │ │ └─ styles.css 16 │ │ ├─ index.html 17 │ │ ├─ project.json 18 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.app.json 19 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.json 20 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.spec.json 21 │ │ └─ vite.config.ts 22 │ └─ react-store-e2e 23 │ └─ ... 24 ├─ nx.json 25 ├─ tsconfig.base.json 26 └─ package.json 27

The setup includes..

  • a new React application (apps/react-store/)
  • a Playwright based set of e2e tests (apps/react-store-e2e/)
  • Prettier preconfigured
  • ESLint preconfigured
  • Jest preconfigured

Typically, an integrated Nx workspace places application projects in the apps folder and library projects in the libs folder. Applications are encouraged to be as light-weight as possible so that more code is pushed into libraries and can be reused in other projects. This folder structure is just a suggestion and can be modified to suit your organization's needs.

The nx.json file contains configuration settings for Nx itself and global default settings that individual projects inherit. The apps/react-store/project.json file contains settings that are specific to the react-store project. We'll examine that file more in the next section.

Serving the App

To serve your new React application, just run:

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npx nx serve react-store

Your application should be served at http://localhost:4200.

Nx uses the following syntax to run tasks:

Syntax for Running Tasks in Nx

Inferred Tasks

Nx identifies available tasks for your project from tooling configuration files, package.json scripts and the targets defined in project.json. To view the tasks that Nx has detected, look in the Nx Console project detail view or run:

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npx nx show project react-store

Project Details View (Simplified)

react-store

Root: apps/react-store

Type:application

Targets

  • build

    vite build

    Cacheable

If you expand the build task, you can see that it was created by the @nx/vite plugin by analyzing your vite.config.ts file. Notice the outputs are defined as {workspaceRoot}/dist/apps/react-store. This value is being read from the build.outDir defined in your vite.config.ts file. Let's change that value in your vite.config.ts file:

apps/react-store/vite.config.ts
1export default defineConfig({ 2 // ... 3 build: { 4 outDir: './build/react-store', 5 // ... 6 }, 7}); 8

Now if you look at the project details view, the outputs for the build target will say {workspaceRoot}/build/react-store. This feature ensures that Nx will always cache the correct files.

You can also override the settings for inferred tasks by modifying the targetDefaults in nx.json or setting a value in your project.json file. Nx will merge the values from the inferred tasks with the values you define in targetDefaults and in your specific project's configuration.

Adding Another Application

Nx plugins usually provide generators that allow you to easily scaffold code, configuration or entire projects. To see what capabilities the @nx/react plugin provides, run the following command and inspect the output:

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npx nx list @nx/react

1 2NX Capabilities in @nx/react: 3 4 GENERATORS 5 6 init : Initialize the `@nrwl/react` plugin. 7 application : Create a React application. 8 library : Create a React library. 9 component : Create a React component. 10 redux : Create a Redux slice for a project. 11 storybook-configuration : Set up storybook for a React app or library. 12 component-story : Generate storybook story for a React component 13 stories : Create stories/specs for all components declared in an app or library. 14 component-cypress-spec : Create a Cypress spec for a UI component that has a story. 15 hook : Create a hook. 16 cypress-component-configuration : Setup Cypress component testing for a React project 17 component-test : Generate a Cypress component test for a React component 18 setup-tailwind : Set up Tailwind configuration for a project. 19 setup-ssr : Set up SSR configuration for a project. 20 host : Generate a host react application 21 remote : Generate a remote react application 22 federate-module : Federate a module. 23 24 EXECUTORS/BUILDERS 25 26 module-federation-dev-server : Serve a host or remote application. 27 module-federation-ssr-dev-server : Serve a host application along with it's known remotes. 28
Prefer a more visual UI?

If you prefer a more integrated experience, you can install the "Nx Console" extension for your code editor. It has support for VSCode, IntelliJ and ships a LSP for Vim. Nx Console provides autocompletion support in Nx configuration files and has UIs for browsing and running generators.

More info can be found in the integrate with editors article.

Run the following command to generate a new inventory application. Note how we append --dry-run to first check the output.

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npx nx g @nx/react:app inventory --directory=apps/inventory --dry-run

1NX Generating @nx/react:application 2 3✔ Would you like to add React Router to this application? (y/N) · false 4✔ Which E2E test runner would you like to use? · cypress 5✔ What should be the project name and where should it be generated? · inventory @ apps/inventory 6CREATE apps/inventory/index.html 7CREATE apps/inventory/public/favicon.ico 8CREATE apps/inventory/src/app/app.spec.tsx 9CREATE apps/inventory/src/assets/.gitkeep 10CREATE apps/inventory/src/main.tsx 11CREATE apps/inventory/tsconfig.app.json 12CREATE apps/inventory/src/app/nx-welcome.tsx 13CREATE apps/inventory/src/app/app.module.css 14CREATE apps/inventory/src/app/app.tsx 15CREATE apps/inventory/src/styles.css 16CREATE apps/inventory/tsconfig.json 17CREATE apps/inventory/project.json 18CREATE apps/inventory/tsconfig.spec.json 19CREATE apps/inventory/vite.config.ts 20CREATE apps/inventory/.eslintrc.json 21CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/project.json 22CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/src/e2e/app.cy.ts 23CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/src/support/app.po.ts 24CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/src/support/e2e.ts 25CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/src/fixtures/example.json 26CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/src/support/commands.ts 27CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/cypress.config.ts 28CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/tsconfig.json 29CREATE apps/inventory-e2e/.eslintrc.json 30 31NOTE: The "dryRun" flag means no changes were made. 32

As you can see, it generates a new application in the apps/inventory/ folder. Let's actually run the generator by removing the --dry-run flag.

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npx nx g @nx/react:app inventory --directory=apps/inventory

Sharing Code with Local Libraries

When you develop your React application, usually all your logic sits in the app folder. Ideally separated by various folder names which represent your "domains". As your app grows, however, the app becomes more and more monolithic and the code is unable to be shared with other applications.

1└─ react-monorepo 2 ├─ ... 3 ├─ apps 4 │ └─ react-store 5 │ ├─ ... 6 │ ├─ src 7 │ │ ├─ app 8 │ │ │ ├─ products 9 │ │ │ ├─ cart 10 │ │ │ ├─ ui 11 │ │ │ ├─ ... 12 │ │ │ └─ app.tsx 13 │ │ ├─ ... 14 │ │ └─ main.tsx 15 │ ├─ ... 16 │ └─ project.json 17 ├─ nx.json 18 ├─ ... 19

Nx allows you to separate this logic into "local libraries". The main benefits include

  • better separation of concerns
  • better reusability
  • more explicit "APIs" between your "domain areas"
  • better scalability in CI by enabling independent test/lint/build commands for each library
  • better scalability in your teams by allowing different teams to work on separate libraries

Creating Local Libraries

Let's assume our domain areas include products, orders and some more generic design system components, called ui. We can generate a new library for each of these areas using the React library generator:

1npx nx g @nx/react:library products --directory=libs/products --unitTestRunner=vitest --bundler=none 2npx nx g @nx/react:library orders --directory=libs/orders --unitTestRunner=vitest --bundler=none 3npx nx g @nx/react:library shared-ui --directory=libs/shared/ui --unitTestRunner=vitest --bundler=none 4

Note how we type out the full path in the directory flag to place the libraries into a subfolder. You can choose whatever folder structure you like to organize your projects. If you change your mind later, you can run the move generator to move a project to a different folder.

Running the above commands should lead to the following directory structure:

1└─ react-monorepo 2 ├─ ... 3 ├─ apps 4 ├─ libs 5 │ ├─ products 6 │ │ ├─ ... 7 │ │ ├─ project.json 8 │ │ ├─ src 9 │ │ │ ├─ index.ts 10 │ │ │ └─ lib 11 │ │ │ ├─ products.spec.ts 12 │ │ │ └─ products.ts 13 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.json 14 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.lib.json 15 │ │ ├─ tsconfig.spec.json 16 │ │ └─ vite.config.ts 17 │ ├─ orders 18 │ │ ├─ ... 19 │ │ ├─ project.json 20 │ │ ├─ src 21 │ │ │ ├─ index.ts 22 │ │ │ └─ ... 23 │ │ └─ ... 24 │ └─ shared 25 │ └─ ui 26 │ ├─ ... 27 │ ├─ project.json 28 │ ├─ src 29 │ │ ├─ index.ts 30 │ │ └─ ... 31 │ └─ ... 32 ├─ ... 33

Each of these libraries

  • has a project details view where you can see the available tasks (e.g. running tests for just orders: npx nx test orders)
  • has its own project.json file where you can customize targets
  • has the name you specified in the generate command; you can find the name in the corresponding project.json file
  • has a dedicated index.ts file which is the "public API" of the library
  • is mapped in the tsconfig.base.json at the root of the workspace

Importing Libraries into the React Applications

All libraries that we generate automatically have aliases created in the root-level tsconfig.base.json.

tsconfig.base.json
1{ 2 "compilerOptions": { 3 ... 4 "paths": { 5 "@react-monorepo/products": ["libs/products/src/index.ts"], 6 "@react-monorepo/orders": ["libs/orders/src/index.ts"], 7 "@react-monorepo/shared-ui": ["libs/shared/ui/src/index.ts"] 8 }, 9 ... 10 }, 11} 12

Hence we can easily import them into other libraries and our Angular application. As an example, let's use the pre-generated ProductsComponent component from our libs/products library.

You can see that the Products component is exported via the index.ts file of our products library so that other projects in the repository can use it. This is our public API with the rest of the workspace. Only export what's really necessary to be usable outside the library itself.

libs/products/src/index.ts
1export * from './lib/products'; 2

We're ready to import it into our main application now. First (if you haven't already), let's set up React Router.

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npm add react-router-dom

Configure it in the main.tsx.

apps/react-store/src/main.tsx
1import { StrictMode } from 'react'; 2import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom'; 3import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client'; 4 5import App from './app/app'; 6 7const root = ReactDOM.createRoot( 8 document.getElementById('root') as HTMLElement 9); 10 11root.render( 12 <StrictMode> 13 <BrowserRouter> 14 <App /> 15 </BrowserRouter> 16 </StrictMode> 17); 18

Then we can import the Products component into our app.tsx and render it via the routing mechanism whenever a user hits the /products route.

apps/react-store/src/app/app.tsx
1import { Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'; 2 3// importing the component from the library 4import { Products } from '@react-monorepo/products'; 5 6function Home() { 7 return <h1>Home</h1>; 8} 9 10export function App() { 11 return ( 12 <Routes> 13 <Route path="/" element={<Home />}></Route> 14 <Route path="/products" element={<Products />}></Route> 15 </Routes> 16 ); 17} 18 19export default App; 20

Serving your app (npx nx serve react-store) and then navigating to /products should give you the following result:

products route

Let's apply the same for our orders library.

  • import the Orders component from libs/orders into the app.tsx and render it via the routing mechanism whenever a user hits the /orders route

In the end, your app.tsx should look similar to this:

apps/react-store/src/app/app.tsx
1import { Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'; 2import { Products } from '@react-monorepo/products'; 3import { Orders } from '@react-monorepo/orders'; 4 5function Home() { 6 return <h1>Home</h1>; 7} 8 9export function App() { 10 return ( 11 <Routes> 12 <Route path="/" element={<Home />}></Route> 13 <Route path="/products" element={<Products />}></Route> 14 <Route path="/orders" element={<Orders />}></Route> 15 </Routes> 16 ); 17} 18 19export default App; 20

Let's also show products in the inventory app.

apps/inventory/src/app/app.tsx
1import { Products } from '@react-monorepo/products'; 2 3export function App() { 4 return <Products />; 5} 6 7export default App; 8

Visualizing your Project Structure

Nx automatically detects the dependencies between the various parts of your workspace and builds a project graph. This graph is used by Nx to perform various optimizations such as determining the correct order of execution when running tasks like npx nx build, identifying affected projects and more. Interestingly you can also visualize it.

Just run:

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npx nx graph

You should be able to see something similar to the following in your browser.

Notice how shared-ui is not yet connected to anything because we didn't import it in any of our projects.

Exercise for you: change the codebase such that shared-ui is used by orders and products. Note: you need to restart the npx nx graph command to update the graph visualization or run the CLI command with the --watch flag.

Testing and Linting - Running Multiple Tasks

Our current setup doesn't just come with targets for serving and building the React application, but also has targets for unit testing, e2e testing and linting. Again, these are defined in the project.json file. We can use the same syntax as before to run these tasks:

1npx nx test react-store # runs the tests for react-store 2npx nx lint inventory # runs the linter on inventory 3npx nx e2e react-store-e2e # runs e2e tests for the react-store 4

More conveniently, we can also run tasks in parallel using the following syntax:

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npx nx run-many -t test

Caching

One thing to highlight is that Nx is able to cache the tasks you run.

Note that all of these targets are automatically cached by Nx. If you re-run a single one or all of them again, you'll see that the task completes immediately. In addition, (as can be seen in the output example below) there will be a note that a matching cache result was found and therefore the task was not run again.

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npx nx run-many -t test lint e2e

1✔ nx run e2e:lint [existing outputs match the cache, left as is] 2✔ nx run react-store:lint [existing outputs match the cache, left as is] 3✔ nx run react-store:test [existing outputs match the cache, left as is] 4✔ nx run e2e:e2e [existing outputs match the cache, left as is] 5 6—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 7 8NX Successfully ran targets test, lint, e2e for 5 projects (54ms) 9 10Nx read the output from the cache instead of running the command for 10 out of 10 tasks. 11

Not all tasks might be cacheable though. You can configure the cache settings in the targetDefaults property of the nx.json file. You can also learn more about how caching works.

Testing Affected Projects

Commit your changes to git.

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git commit -a -m "some commit message"

And then make a small change to the products library.

libs/products/src/lib/products.tsx
1import styles from './products.module.css'; 2 3export function Products() { 4 return ( 5 <div className={styles['container']}> 6 <h1>Welcome to Products!</h1> 7 <p>This is a change. 👋</p> 8 </div> 9 ); 10} 11 12export default Products; 13

One of the key features of Nx in a monorepo setting is that you're able to run tasks only for projects that are actually affected by the code changes that you've made. To run the tests for only the projects affected by this change, run:

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npx nx affected -t test

Note that the unit tests were run for products, react-store and inventory, but not for orders because a change to products can not possibly break the tests for orders. In a small repo like this, there isn't a lot of time saved, but as there are more tests and more projects, this quickly becomes an essential command.

You can also see what projects are affected in the graph visualizer with;

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npx nx graph --affected

Building the Apps for Deployment

If you're ready and want to ship your applications, you can build them using

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npx nx run-many -t build

1vite v4.3.5 building for production... 2✓ 33 libs transformed. 3dist/react-store/index.html 0.48 kB │ gzip: 0.30 kB 4dist/react-store/assets/index-e3b0c442.css 0.00 kB │ gzip: 0.02 kB 5dist/react-store/assets/index-378e8124.js 165.64 kB │ gzip: 51.63 kB 6✓ built in 496ms 7 8—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 9 10NX Successfully ran target build for project reactutorial (1s) 11

All the required files will be placed in dist/react-store and dist/inventory and can be deployed to your favorite hosting provider.

You can even create your own deploy task that sends the build output to your hosting provider.

apps/react-store/project.json
1{ 2 "targets": { 3 "deploy": { 4 "dependsOn": ["build"], 5 "command": "netlify deploy --dir=dist/react-store" 6 } 7 } 8} 9

Replace the command with whatever terminal command you use to deploy your site.

The "dependsOn": ["build"] setting tells Nx to make sure that the project's build task has been run successfully before the deploy task.

With the deploy tasks defined, you can deploy a single application with npx nx deploy react-store or deploy any applications affected by the current changes with:

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npx nx affected -t deploy

Imposing Constraints with Module Boundary Rules

Once you modularize your codebase you want to make sure that the libs are not coupled to each other in an uncontrolled way. Here are some examples of how we might want to guard our small demo workspace:

  • we might want to allow orders to import from shared-ui but not the other way around
  • we might want to allow orders to import from products but not the other way around
  • we might want to allow all libraries to import the shared-ui components, but not the other way around

When building these kinds of constraints you usually have two dimensions:

  • type of project: what is the type of your library. Example: "feature" library, "utility" library, "data-access" library, "ui" library
  • scope (domain) of the project: what domain area is covered by the project. Example: "orders", "products", "shared" ... this really depends on the type of product you're developing

Nx comes with a generic mechanism that allows you to assign "tags" to projects. "tags" are arbitrary strings you can assign to a project that can be used later when defining boundaries between projects. For example, go to the project.json of your orders library and assign the tags type:feature and scope:orders to it.

libs/orders/project.json
1{ 2 ... 3 "tags": ["type:feature", "scope:orders"] 4} 5

Then go to the project.json of your products library and assign the tags type:feature and scope:products to it.

libs/products/project.json
1{ 2 ... 3 "tags": ["type:feature", "scope:products"] 4} 5

Finally, go to the project.json of the shared-ui library and assign the tags type:ui and scope:shared to it.

libs/shared/ui/project.json
1{ 2 ... 3 "tags": ["type:ui", "scope:shared"] 4} 5

Notice how we assign scope:shared to our UI library because it is intended to be used throughout the workspace.

Next, let's come up with a set of rules based on these tags:

  • type:feature should be able to import from type:feature and type:ui
  • type:ui should only be able to import from type:ui
  • scope:orders should be able to import from scope:orders, scope:shared and scope:products
  • scope:products should be able to import from scope:products and scope:shared

To enforce the rules, Nx ships with a custom ESLint rule. Open the .eslintrc.base.json at the root of the workspace and add the following depConstraints in the @nx/enforce-module-boundaries rule configuration:

.eslintrc.base.json
1{ 2 ... 3 "overrides": [ 4 { 5 ... 6 "rules": { 7 "@nx/enforce-module-boundaries": [ 8 "error", 9 { 10 "enforceBuildableLibDependency": true, 11 "allow": [], 12 "depConstraints": [ 13 { 14 "sourceTag": "type:feature", 15 "onlyDependOnLibsWithTags": ["type:feature", "type:ui"] 16 }, 17 { 18 "sourceTag": "type:ui", 19 "onlyDependOnLibsWithTags": ["type:ui"] 20 }, 21 { 22 "sourceTag": "scope:orders", 23 "onlyDependOnLibsWithTags": [ 24 "scope:orders", 25 "scope:products", 26 "scope:shared" 27 ] 28 }, 29 { 30 "sourceTag": "scope:products", 31 "onlyDependOnLibsWithTags": ["scope:products", "scope:shared"] 32 }, 33 { 34 "sourceTag": "scope:shared", 35 "onlyDependOnLibsWithTags": ["scope:shared"] 36 } 37 ] 38 } 39 ] 40 } 41 }, 42 ... 43 ] 44} 45

To test it, go to your libs/products/src/lib/products.tsx file and import the Orders component from the orders project:

libs/products/src/lib/products.tsx
1import styles from './products.module.css'; 2 3// This import is not allowed 👇 4import { Orders } from '@react-monorepo/orders'; 5 6export function Products() { 7 return ( 8 <div className={styles['container']}> 9 <h1>Welcome to Products!</h1> 10 <p>This is a change. 👋</p> 11 </div> 12 ); 13} 14 15export default Products; 16

If you lint your workspace you'll get an error now:

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npx nx run-many -t lint

1 Running target lint for 7 projects 2✖ nx run products:lint 3 Linting "products"... 4 5 /Users/isaac/Documents/code/nx-recipes/react-monorepo/libs/products/src/lib/products.tsx 6 4:1 error A project tagged with "scope:products" can only depend on libs tagged with "scope:products", "scope:shared" @nx/enforce-module-boundaries 7 4:10 warning 'Orders' is defined but never used @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars 8 9 ✖ 2 problems (1 error, 1 warning) 10 11 Lint warnings found in the listed files. 12 13 Lint errors found in the listed files. 14 15 16✔ nx run orders:lint (996ms) 17✔ nx run react-store:lint (1s) 18✔ nx run react-store-e2e:lint (581ms) 19✔ nx run inventory-e2e:lint (588ms) 20✔ nx run inventory:lint (836ms) 21✔ nx run shared-ui:lint (753ms) 22 23———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 24 25NX Ran target lint for 7 projects (2s) 26 27✔ 6/7 succeeded [0 read from cache] 28 29✖ 1/7 targets failed, including the following: 30 - nx run products:lint 31

If you have the ESLint plugin installed in your IDE you should also immediately see an error.

Learn more about how to enforce module boundaries.

Fast CI ⚡

Repository with Nx

Make sure you have completed the previous sections of this tutorial before starting this one. If you want a clean starting point, you can check out the reference code as a starting point.

This tutorial walked you through how Nx can improve the local development experience, but the biggest difference Nx makes is in CI. As repositories get bigger, making sure that the CI is fast, reliable and maintainable can get very challenging. Nx provides a solution.

Connect to Nx Cloud

Nx Cloud is a companion app for your CI system that provides remote caching, task distribution, e2e tests deflaking, better DX and more.

Now that we're working on the CI pipeline, it is important for your changes to be pushed to a GitHub repository.

  1. Commit your existing changes with git add . && git commit -am "updates"
  2. Create a new GitHub repository
  3. Follow GitHub's instructions to push your existing code to the repository

When we set up the repository at the beginning of this tutorial, we chose to use GitHub Actions as a CI provider. This created a basic CI pipeline and configured Nx Cloud in the repository. It also printed a URL in the terminal to register your repository in your Nx Cloud account. If you didn't click on the link when first creating your repository, you can show it again by running:

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npx nx connect

Once you click the link, follow the steps provided and make sure Nx Cloud is enabled on the main branch of your repository.

Configure Your CI Workflow

When you chose GitHub Actions as your CI provider at the beginning of the tutorial, create-nx-workspace created a .github/workflows/ci.yml file that contains a CI pipeline that will run the lint, test, build and e2e tasks for projects that are affected by any given PR. Since we are using Nx Cloud, the pipeline will also distribute tasks across multiple machines to ensure fast and reliable CI runs.

If you need to generate a new workflow file for GitHub Actions or other providers, you can do so with this command:

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npx nx generate ci-workflow

The key lines in the CI pipeline are:

.github/workflows/ci.yml
1name: CI 2# ... 3jobs: 4 main: 5 runs-on: ubuntu-latest 6 steps: 7 - uses: actions/checkout@v4 8 with: 9 fetch-depth: 0 10 # This enables task distribution via Nx Cloud 11 # Run this command as early as possible, before dependencies are installed 12 # Learn more at https://nx.dev/ci/reference/nx-cloud-cli#npx-nxcloud-startcirun 13 # Connect your workspace by running "nx connect" and uncomment this 14 - run: npx nx-cloud start-ci-run --distribute-on="3 linux-medium-js" --stop-agents-after="build" 15 - uses: actions/setup-node@v3 16 with: 17 node-version: 20 18 cache: 'npm' 19 - run: npm ci --legacy-peer-deps 20 - uses: nrwl/nx-set-shas@v4 21 # Nx Affected runs only tasks affected by the changes in this PR/commit. Learn more: https://nx.dev/ci/features/affected 22 - run: npx nx affected -t lint test build 23

Open a Pull Request

Commit the changes and open a new PR on GitHub.

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git add .

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git commit -m 'add CI workflow file'

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git push origin add-workflow

When you view the PR on GitHub, you will see a comment from Nx Cloud that reports on the status of the CI run.

Nx Cloud report

The See all runs link goes to a page with the progress and results of tasks that were run in the CI pipeline.

Run details

For more information about how Nx can improve your CI pipeline, check out one of these detailed tutorials:

Next Steps

Here's some things you can dive into next:

Also, make sure you