@nx/nest:application

Nx Application Options Schema.

Usage

1nx generate application ... 2
1nx g app ... #same 2

By default, Nx will search for application in the default collection provisioned in workspace.json.

You can specify the collection explicitly as follows:

1nx g @nx/nest:application ... 2

Show what will be generated without writing to disk:

1nx g application ... --dry-run 2

Options

directory

Required
string

The directory of the new application.

frontendProject

string

Frontend project that needs to access this application. This sets up proxy configuration.

name

string
Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z][^:]*$

The name of the application.

e2eTestRunner

string
Default: jest
Accepted values: jest, none

Test runner to use for end to end (e2e) tests

linter

string
Default: eslint
Accepted values: eslint, none

The tool to use for running lint checks.

setParserOptionsProject

boolean
Default: false

Whether or not to configure the ESLint parserOptions.project option. We do not do this by default for lint performance reasons.

strict

boolean
Default: false

Adds strictNullChecks, noImplicitAny, strictBindCallApply, forceConsistentCasingInFileNames and noFallthroughCasesInSwitch to tsconfig.

tags

string

Add tags to the application (used for linting).

unitTestRunner

string
Default: jest
Accepted values: jest, none

Test runner to use for unit tests.

skipFormat

Internal
boolean
Default: false

Skip formatting files.

skipPackageJson

Internal
boolean
Default: false

Do not add dependencies to package.json.

standaloneConfig

Deprecated
boolean
Default: true

Split the project configuration into <projectRoot>/project.json rather than including it inside workspace.json.

Nx only supports standaloneConfig