@nrwl/react

What is @nrwl/react?

@nrwl/react is a plugin for Nx, a set of extensible dev tools for monorepos, which provides support for building React applications. It offers a range of features to streamline the development, testing, and maintenance of React applications within a monorepo setup.

What are @nrwl/react's main functionalities?

Generate React Applications

This command generates a new React application within the Nx workspace. It sets up the necessary configuration and boilerplate code to get started quickly.

nx generate @nrwl/react:application my-app

Generate React Libraries

This command generates a new React library within the Nx workspace. Libraries can be shared across multiple applications, promoting code reuse and modularity.

nx generate @nrwl/react:library my-lib

Component Generation

This command generates a new React component within a specified project. It helps in maintaining a consistent structure and reduces the boilerplate code needed for new components.

nx generate @nrwl/react:component my-component --project=my-app

Testing Support

This command runs the tests for a specified React application or library. Nx integrates with popular testing frameworks like Jest, making it easy to write and run tests.

nx test my-app

Linting

This command runs linting checks on a specified React application or library. Nx integrates with ESLint to ensure code quality and consistency across the workspace.

nx lint my-app

Other packages similar to @nrwl/react

create-react-app

Create React App is a popular tool for setting up a new React project with a single command. It provides a lot of the same boilerplate setup as @nrwl/react but is more focused on single-project setups rather than monorepos.

lerna

Lerna is a tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages. While it doesn't provide specific support for React, it helps in managing monorepos, similar to Nx, but without the additional React-specific tooling provided by @nrwl/react.

react-scripts

React Scripts is a set of scripts and configuration used by Create React App. It abstracts the configuration for building, testing, and linting React applications, similar to how @nrwl/react provides these capabilities within an Nx workspace.

README

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What is Nx?

🔎 Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos.

Nx Helps You

Use Modern Tools

Using Nx, you can add TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Prettier, and Nest into your dev workflow. Nx sets up these tools and allows you to use them seamlessly. Nx fully integrates with the other modern tools you already use and love.

Build Full-Stack Applications

With Nx, you can build full-stack applications using modern frameworks. You can share code between the frontend and the backend. And you can use the same build/test/serve commands throughout the whole dev experience.

Develop like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft

With Nx, you can develop multiple full-stack applications holistically and share code between them all in the same workspace. Nx provides advanced tools which help you scale your enterprise development. Nx also helps enforce your organization’s standards and community best practices.

Getting Started

Creating an Nx Workspace

Using npx

npx create-nx-workspace myworkspace

Using npm init

npm init nx-workspace myworkspace

Using yarn create

yarn create nx-workspace myworkspace

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.

Adding Nx to an Existing Angular CLI workspace

If you are an Angular user, you can also add Nx to your existing Angular CLI project by running:

ng add @nrwl/workspace

Creating First Application

By default, an Nx workspace starts blank. There are no applications to build, serve, and test. To create one, you need to add capabilities to the workspace.

To add an Angular app, run:

yarn add @nrwl/angular
nx g @nrwl/angular:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

npm install --save-dev @nrwl/angular
nx g @nrwl/angular:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

To add a React app, run:

yarn add @nrwl/react
nx g @nrwl/react:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

npm install --save-dev @nrwl/react
nx g @nrwl/react:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

To add a web components app, run:

yarn add @nrwl/web
nx g @nrwl/web:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

npm install --save-dev @nrwl/web
nx g @nrwl/web:app myapp # or just "nx g myapp"

If nx g fails, use: yarn nx g @nrwl/web:app myapp or npm run nx -- g @nrwl/web:app myapp.

Regardless of what framework you chose, the resulting file tree will look like this:

<workspace name>/
├── apps/
│   ├── myapp/
│   └── myapp-e2e/
├── libs/
├── tools/
├── nx.json
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── tslint.json

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!

Quick Start & Documentation

Documentation

• Nx Documentation and Guides
• Nx blog posts

Books

• Enterprise Monorepo Patterns

Videos

• Nx Quickstart - How to Scale a JavaScript Project
• Video course on using Nx Workspaces

Talks

• Angular at Large Organizations
• Nx: The New Way to Build Enterprise Angular Apps
• Supercharging the Angular CLI
• Hands on Full Stack development with Nx and Bazel

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

Want to help?

If you want to file a bug or submit a PR, read up on our guidelines for contributing.

Core Team

Victor Savkin	Jason Jean	Benjamin Cabanes
vsavkin	FrozenPandaz	bcabanes