The Nx Cheatsheet — Commands for Daily Development

If you have just started working with Nx — or joined a team that uses it — the CLI can feel overwhelming at first. There are dozens of commands, flags, and concepts to absorb all at once. This cheatsheet cuts through the noise. It covers the commands you will actually use every day , organised by workflow, explained plainly. Bookmark it, come back to it, share it with your team. Complete List of CLI commands can be found here . 📋 Table of Contents What is Nx? Creating a Workspace Adding Plugins Generating Projects and Code Running and Serving Applications Running Multiple Tasks Filtering Projects with Patterns and Tags Building Projects The Affected Commands Skipping and Managing the Cache Running Tests Linting and Formatting Visualising the Dependency Graph Workspace and Project Info The Nx Daemon Quick Reference Cheat Sheet What is Nx? Nx is an open-source build system and monorepo toolkit. It lets you manage all your applications and shared libraries in a single repository while giv