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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.

Modify Code

Section titled “Modify Code”

These commands modify your codebase in some way.

nx init

Section titled “nx init”

Adds Nx to any type of workspace. It installs nx, creates an nx.json configuration file and optionally sets up remote caching.

nx init
nx init
Add to Existing Monorepo
Add to Any Project
Migrate from Angular CLI

nx add

Section titled “nx add”

Install a plugin and initialize it.

nx add my-plugin
nx add
Plugin Registry

nx generate

Section titled “nx generate”

Runs a generator that creates and/or modifies files based on a generator from a plugin.

nx generate @nx/react:component libs/my-lib/src/lib/my-component
nx generate
Generate Code

nx migrate

Section titled “nx migrate”

Creates a migrations file or runs migrations from the migrations file.

nx migrate latest
nx migrate --run-migrations
nx migrate
Automate Updating Dependencies

nx import

Section titled “nx import”

Import code and git history from another repository into this repository.

nx import https://github.com/myorg/inventory-app.git apps/inventory
nx import ../inventory-app apps/inventory
nx import
Import an Existing Project into an Nx Workspace

nx repair

Section titled “nx 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.

nx repair
nx repair

nx sync

Section titled “nx sync”

Run all sync generators

nx sync
nx sync:check
nx sync
nx sync:check
Sync Generators
Register a Sync Generator

nx format

Section titled “nx format”

Overwrite un-formatted files or check for un-formatted files

nx format
nx format:check
nx format
nx format:check

Run Tasks

Section titled “Run Tasks”

These commands run tasks on your code.

nx run

Section titled “nx run”

Run a target for a project

nx run my-app:build
nx build my-app
nx run
Run Tasks

nx run-many

Section titled “nx run-many”

Run target for multiple listed projects

nx run-many --target=build
nx run-many
Run Tasks

nx affected

Section titled “nx affected”

Run target for affected projects

nx affected --target=build
nx affected
Run Only Tasks Affected by a PR

nx exec

Section titled “nx exec”

Executes any command as if it was a target on the project

package.json
{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "nx exec -- node ./my-custom-build.js"
  }
}
nx exec
Run Root Level NPM Scripts with Nx

nx watch

Section titled “nx watch”

Watch for changes within projects, and execute commands

nx watch --projects=assets -- nx build assets
nx watch
Workspace Watching

nx release

Section titled “nx release”

Orchestrate versioning and publishing of applications and libraries

nx release version
nx release changelog
nx release publish
nx release
Manage Releases

nx reset

Section titled “nx reset”

Clears cached Nx artifacts and metadata about the workspace and shuts down the Nx Daemon.

nx reset
nx reset

Display Information

Section titled “Display Information”

nx show

Section titled “nx show”

Show information about the workspace (e.g., list of projects)

nx show projects
nx show project my-app
nx show
Explore Projects in Your Workspace

nx graph

Section titled “nx graph”

Graph dependencies within workspace

nx graph
nx graph
Explore Your Workspace

nx list

Section titled “nx list”

Lists installed plugins, capabilities of installed plugins and other available plugins.

nx list
nx list my-plugin
nx list

nx report

Section titled “nx report”

Reports useful version numbers to copy into the Nx issue template

nx report
nx report

nx daemon

Section titled “nx daemon”

Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process

nx daemon
nx daemon
Nx Daemon

nx mcp

Section titled “nx mcp”

Starts the Nx MCP server for exposing Nx tools to various AI systems (VSCode, Cursor, Claude, ...)

MCP
Enhance Your LLM

Integrate with Nx Cloud

Section titled “Integrate with Nx Cloud”

nx connect

Section titled “nx connect”

Connect an Nx workspace to Nx Cloud

nx connect
nx connect
Connect to Nx Cloud

nx login

Section titled “nx login”

Login to Nx Cloud. This command is an alias for nx-cloud login.

nx login
nx login
Personal Access Tokens

nx logout

Section titled “nx logout”

Logout from Nx Cloud. This command is an alias for nx-cloud logout.

nx logout
nx logout
Personal Access Tokens

nx record

Section titled “nx record”

Records command execution for distributed task execution. This command is an alias for nx-cloud record.

nx record -- nx run my-app:build
nx record
Distribute Task Execution

nx start-ci-run

Section titled “nx start-ci-run”

Starts a new CI run for distributed task execution. This command is an alias for nx-cloud start-ci-run.

nx start-ci-run
nx start-ci-run
Distribute Task Execution

nx fix-ci

Section titled “nx fix-ci”

Fixes CI failures with AI-powered suggestions. This command is an alias for nx-cloud fix-ci.

nx fix-ci
nx fix-ci

Create Commands

Section titled “Create Commands”

create-nx-workspace

Section titled “create-nx-workspace”

Create a new Nx workspace

npx create-nx-workspace@latest
create-nx-workspace

create-nx-plugin

Section titled “create-nx-plugin”

Create a new Nx workspace with a preset designed for writing an Nx plugin

npx create-nx-plugin@latest
Extending Nx with Plugins