Angular Plugin

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The Nx Plugin for Angular contains executors, generators, and utilities for managing Angular applications and libraries within an Nx workspace. It provides:

  • Integration with libraries such as Storybook, Jest, Cypress, Karma, and Protractor.
  • Generators to help scaffold code quickly, including:
    • Micro Frontends
    • Libraries, both internal to your codebase and publishable to npm
    • Upgrading AngularJS applications
    • Single Component Application Modules (SCAMs)
  • NgRx helpers.
  • Utilities for automatic workspace refactoring.

Setting up the Angular plugin

Adding the Angular plugin to an existing Nx workspace can be done with the following:

yarn add -D @nrwl/angular
npm install -D @nrwl/angular

Using the Angular Plugin

Generating an application

It's straightforward to generate an Angular application:

nx g @nrwl/angular:app appName

By default, the application will be generated with:

  • ESLint as the linter.
  • Jest as the unit test runner.
  • Cypress as the E2E test runner.

We can then serve, build, test, lint, and run e2e tests on the application with the following commands:

nx serve appName
nx build appName
nx test appName
nx lint appName
nx e2e appName

Generating a library

Generating an Angular library is very similar to generating an application:

nx g @nrwl/angular:lib libName

By default, the library will be generated with:

  • ESLint as the linter.
  • Jest as the unit test runner.

We can then test and lint the library with the following commands:

nx test libName
nx lint libName

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