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# nx.json
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The `nx.json` file configures the Nx CLI and project defaults.
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The following is an expanded version showing all options. Your `nx.json` will likely be much shorter.
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```json {% fileName="nx.json" %}
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{
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"npmScope": "happyorg",
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"affected": {
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"defaultBase": "main"
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},
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"workspaceLayout": {
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"appsDir": "demos",
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"libsDir": "packages"
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},
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"implicitDependencies": {
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"package.json": {
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"dependencies": "*",
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"devDependencies": "*"
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},
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"tsconfig.base.json": "*",
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"nx.json": "*"
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},
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"namedInputs": {
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"default": ["{projectRoot}/**/*"],
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"production": ["!{projectRoot}/**/*.spec.tsx"]
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},
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"targetDefaults": {
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"build": {
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"inputs": ["production", "^production"],
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"dependsOn": ["^build"]
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}
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},
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"generators": {
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"@nrwl/js:library": {
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"buildable": true
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}
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},
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"tasksRunnerOptions": {
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"default": {
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"runner": "nx/tasks-runners/default",
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"options": {
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"cacheableOperations": ["build", "lint", "test", "e2e"]
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}
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}
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}
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}
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```
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### NPM Scope
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Tells Nx what prefix to use when generating library imports.
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### Affected
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Tells Nx which branch and HEAD to use when calculating affected projects.
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- `defaultBase` defines the default base branch, defaulted to `main`.
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### Workspace Layout
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You can add a `workspaceLayout` property to modify where libraries and apps are located.
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```json
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{
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"workspaceLayout": {
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"appsDir": "demos",
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"libsDir": "packages"
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}
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}
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```
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These settings would store apps in `/demos/` and libraries in `/packages/`. The paths specified are relative to the
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workspace root.
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### Files & Implicit Dependencies
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Nx performs advanced source-code analysis to figure out the project graph of the workspace. So when you make a change,
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Nx can deduce what can be broken by this change. Some dependencies between projects and shared files cannot be inferred
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statically. You can configure those using `implicitDependencies`.
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```json
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{
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"implicitDependencies": {
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"package.json": {
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"dependencies": "*",
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"devDependencies": {
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"mypackage": ["mylib"]
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},
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"scripts": {
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"check:*": "*"
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}
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},
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"globalFile": ["myapp"],
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"styles/**/*.css": ["myapp"]
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}
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}
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```
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In the example above:
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- Changing the `dependencies` property in `package.json` affects every project.
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- Changing the `mypackage` property in `package.json` only affects `mylib`.
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- Changing any of the custom check `scripts` in `package.json` affects every project.
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- Changing `globalFile` only affects `myapp`.
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- Changing any CSS file inside the `styles` directory only affects `myapp`.
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### inputs & namedInputs
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Named inputs defined in `nx.json` are merged with the named inputs defined in each project's project.json.
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In other words, every project has a set of named inputs, and it's defined as: `{...namedInputsFromNxJson, ...namedInputsFromProjectsProjectJson}`.
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Defining `inputs` for a given target would replace the set of inputs for that target name defined in `nx.json`.
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Using pseudocode `inputs = projectJson.targets.build.inputs || nxJson.targetDefaults.build.inputs`.
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You can also define and redefine named inputs. This enables one key use case, where your `nx.json` can define things
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like this (which applies to every project):
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```
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"test": {
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"inputs": [
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"default",
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"^production"
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]
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}
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```
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And projects can define their `production` fileset, without having to redefine the inputs for the `test` target.
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```json {% fileName="project.json" %}
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{
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"namedInputs": {
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"production": ["default", "!{projectRoot}/**/*.test.js"]
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}
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}
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```
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In this case Nx will use the right `production` input for each project.
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{% cards %}
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{% card title="Project Configuration reference" type="documentation" description="inputs and namedInputs are also described in the project configuration reference" url="/reference/project-configuration#inputs-&-namedinputs" /%}
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{% card title="Customizing inputs and namedInputs" type="documentation" description="This guide walks through a few examples of how to customize inputs and namedInputs" url="/more-concepts/customizing-inputs" /%}
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{% /cards %}
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### Target Defaults
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Targets can depend on other targets. A common scenario is having to build dependencies of a project first before
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building the project. The `dependsOn` property in `project.json` can be used to define the list of dependencies of an
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individual target.
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Often the same `dependsOn` configuration has to be defined for every project in the repo, and that's when
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defining `targetDefaults` in `nx.json` is helpful.
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```json {% fileName="nx.json" %}
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{
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"targetDefaults": {
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"build": {
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"dependsOn": ["^build"]
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}
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}
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}
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```
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The configuration above is identical to adding `{"dependsOn": ["^build"]}` to every build target of every project.
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For full documentation of the `dependsOn` property, see the [project configuration reference](/reference/project-configuration#dependson).
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{% cards %}
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{% card title="Project Configuration reference" type="documentation" description="For full documentation of the `dependsOn` property, see the project configuration reference" url="/reference/project-configuration#dependson" /%}
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{% /cards %}
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Another target default you can configure is `outputs`:
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```json {% fileName="nx.json" %}
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{
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"targetDefaults": {
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"build": {
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"outputs": ["./custom-dist"]
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}
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}
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}
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```
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### Generators
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Default generator options are configured in `nx.json` as well. For instance, the following tells Nx to always
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pass `--buildable=true` when creating new libraries.
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```json {% fileName="nx.json" %}
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{
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"generators": {
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"@nrwl/js:library": {
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"buildable": true
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}
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}
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}
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```
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### Tasks Runner Options
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> A task is an invocation of a target.
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Tasks runners are invoked when you run `nx test`, `nx build`, `nx run-many`, `nx affected`, and so on. The tasks runner
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named "default" is used by default. Specify a different one like this `nx run-many --target=build --all --runner=another`.
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Tasks runners can accept different options. The following are the options supported
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by `"nx/tasks-runners/default"` and `"@nrwl/nx-cloud"`.
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| Property | Descrtipion |
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| cacheableOperations | defines the list of targets/operations that are cached by Nx |
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| parallel | defines the max number of targets ran in parallel (in older versions of Nx you had to pass `--parallel --maxParallel=3` instead of `--parallel=3`) |
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| captureStderr | defines whether the cache captures stderr or just stdout |
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| skipNxCache | defines whether the Nx Cache should be skipped (defaults to `false`) |
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| cacheDirectory | defines where the local cache is stored (defaults to `node_modules/.cache/nx`) |
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| encryptionKey | (when using `"@nrwl/nx-cloud"` only) defines an encryption key to support end-to-end encryption of your cloud cache. You may also provide an environment variable with the key `NX_CLOUD_ENCRYPTION_KEY` that contains an encryption key as its value. The Nx Cloud task runner normalizes the key length, so any length of key is acceptable |
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| selectivelyHashTsConfig | only hash the path mapping of the active project in the `tsconfig.base.json` (e.g., adding/removing projects doesn't affect the hash of existing projects) (defaults to `false`) |
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You can configure `parallel` in `nx.json`, but you can also pass them in the
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terminal `nx run-many --target=test --parallel=5`.
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