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---
title: 'watch - CLI command'
description: 'Watch for changes within projects, and execute commands.'
---
# watch
Watch for changes within projects, and execute commands.
## Usage
```shell
nx watch
```
Install `nx` globally to invoke the command directly using `nx`, or use `npx nx`, `yarn nx`, or `pnpm nx`.
### Examples
Watch the "app" project and echo the project name and the files that changed:
```shell
nx watch --projects=app -- echo \$NX_PROJECT_NAME \$NX_FILE_CHANGES
```
Watch "app1" and "app2" and echo the project name whenever a specified project or its dependencies change:
```shell
nx watch --projects=app1,app2 --includeDependentProjects -- echo \$NX_PROJECT_NAME
```
Watch all projects (including newly created projects) in the workspace:
```shell
nx watch --all -- echo \$NX_PROJECT_NAME
```
## Options
| Option | Type | Description |
| ----------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--all` | boolean | Watch all projects. |
| `--help` | boolean | Show help. |
| `--includeDependentProjects`, `--d` | boolean | When watching selected projects, include dependent projects as well. |
| `--projects`, `--p` | string | Projects to watch (comma/space delimited). |
| `--verbose` | boolean | Run watch mode in verbose mode, where commands are logged before execution. |
| `--version` | boolean | Show version number. |