@nrwl/tao

What is @nrwl/tao?

The @nrwl/tao package is part of the Nx monorepo toolset provided by Nrwl. It provides a set of utilities for workspace management, task orchestration, and abstracts away the configuration for building and testing applications. It is designed to help developers create and maintain monorepo setups more efficiently.

What are @nrwl/tao's main functionalities?

Workspace Management

This feature allows you to read the workspace configuration file, which is useful for understanding the structure and configuration of projects within the workspace.

const { readWorkspaceJson } = require('@nrwl/tao/src/core/file-utils');
const workspaceJson = readWorkspaceJson();

Task Orchestration

This feature enables you to programmatically execute tasks such as building or testing a project within the workspace. It is useful for automating workflows and integrating with other tools.

const { runCommand } = require('@nrwl/tao/src/commands/run-command');
runCommand('build', { project: 'my-app' }, { interactive: false });

Configuration Abstraction

This feature provides utility functions to work with the workspace's root path and other configuration details, simplifying the process of setting up and maintaining a monorepo.

const { getWorkspacePath } = require('@nrwl/tao/src/utils/app-root');
const workspacePath = getWorkspacePath();

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README

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TAO Cli for Nx

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.

What is It

An internal package implementing the core functionality of the Nx CLI.

How to Use

This package is used by the @nrwl/workspace. See https://github.com/nrwl/nx for more information.

Documentation

• Nx Repo
• Nx Documentation and Guides

Courses

Scale React Development with Nx	Nx Workspaces	Advanced Nx Workspaces

Nx Demo & Tutorial Videos

• Nx Dev Tools for Monorepos, In-Depth Explainer (React)

• Nx Dev Tools for Monorepos, In-Depth Explainer (Angular)

• Storybook Integration with Nx

• Building Custom Plugins for Nx

• Improved Dependency Graph Visualization for Nx

• Group all your stories into a single viewable Storybook with Nx

• Debug Nx with Node and VSCode

• Debug your Jest tests in Nx with VSCode

• Nx Console - A Must-Have Visual Studio Code Extension for Angular Developers

• Introducing Nx Cloud

• Setting up distributed caching using Nx Cloud, @nrwl/nx-cloud

• High Quality React apps with Nx & Cypress

Books and Blogs

• Nx blog posts

• Angular Enterprise Monorepo Patterns Book (free)

• 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)

Additional Resources

• 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

• Nrwl Talks, Presentations, and Podcasts playlist on YouTube

• Nx Office Hours playlist on YouTube