Nx Has a Free API — Here's How to Use It for Smart Monorepo Management

Nx is a powerful build system with first-class monorepo support. It provides computation caching, affected commands, code generation, and project graph visualization — all for free. Getting Started npx create-nx-workspace@latest my-workspace --preset = ts cd my-workspace Project Configuration // project.json { "name" : "my-app" , "targets" : { "build" : { "executor" : "@nx/webpack:webpack" , "outputs" : [ "{options.outputPath}" ], "options" : { "outputPath" : "dist/apps/my-app" , "main" : "apps/my-app/src/main.ts" } }, "test" : { "executor" : "@nx/jest:jest" , "options" : { "jestConfig" : "apps/my-app/jest.config.ts" } } } } Affected Commands # Only build/test what changed nx affected -t build nx affected -t test nx affected -t lint # See what's affected nx affected --graph Code Generation # Generate a new library nx g @nx/js:lib shared-utils # Generate a React component nx g @nx/react:component Button --project = ui-lib # Generate a new app nx g @nx/next:app my-next-app Task Caching a