nx/docs/shared/running-custom-commands.md

Compodoc is a great tool for automatically generating documentation for Angular projects. In order to use it, you need to run a simple command in the terminal.

This recipe will show how to run any terminal command within the nx build-chain using Compodoc as an example.

Steps

1. Define the terminal command to be run

The command we want to run for each project is:

compodoc -p [path/to/tsconfig.json]

2. Update angular.json

For each project for which you want to enable compodoc, add a target in angular.json:

"compodoc": {
    "builder": "@nrwl/workspace:run-commands",
        "options": {
        "commands": [
            {
                "command": "npx compodoc -p apps/my-app/tsconfig.app.json"
            }
        ]
    }
}

For more information, see the run-commands api doc.

Note: Replace apps/my-app/tsconfig.app.json with the appropriate tsconfig.json path for each project.

3. Trigger the builder from the terminal

To run the builder for a single project:

ng run my-app:compodoc

To run the builder for all affected projects:

nx affected --target=compodoc

For more information, see the nx affected api doc.