The Angular Developer's Nx Handbook
The Angular Developer's Nx Handbook
About the Book
This free book about the Nx build framework targets Angular developers. It assumes familiarity with the Angular CLI to use common concepts and compare them to equivalents or replacements included in the Nx CLI.
The Angular Developer's Nx Handbook is a curated guide to essential Nx concepts, principles, and features. We learn to use Nx to build features for a real-world Angular application.
We start our Nx Angular journey by generating a workspace from scratch. After exploring the contents of a freshly generated Nx workspace, we go through the Nx CLI commands that are similar to or replacements for Angular CLI commands. Next, we discuss the unique commands offered by the Nx CLI.
Following Nx CLI commands, we learn about the important Nx library concepts library traits and library types.
With an understanding of Nx library concepts in place, we start work on Gitropolis, a GitHub clone using GitHub's Primer design system, the GitHub REST API via Octokit, RxAngular for state management, an improved developer experience, and optimized rendering.
The book uses the latest tooling, conventions, and best practices.
We develop Gitropolis using:
- An Angular standalone application
- Angular standalone components
- Angular version 14 or 15
- Nx version 14 or 15
- GitHub Actions
Still to come:
- Advanced Nx CLI commands
- The Nx project graph
- Project tags
- Grouping directories
- Nx plugins
- A CI workflow using GitHub Actions
- Migrating from an existing Angular CLI workspace
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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Creating an Nx workspace
- Using the create-nx-workspace command
- Creating an Angular CLI workspace for comparison
- Conclusion
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Exploring a fresh Nx Angular workspace
- Comparing top-level files
- Comparing top-level directories
- Introducing solution-style TypeScript configurations
- Conclusion
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Feeling right at home with familiar Nx CLI commands
- create-nx-workspace is like ng new
- nx build to build projects
- nx serve to start a development server
- nx generate to generate code
- nx generate instead of ng add
- nx lint to lint source files
- nx test to run unit tests
- nx e2e to run end-to-end tests
- nx run to run any target in a project
- nx deploy to deploy a project
- nx extract-i18n to extract internationalization texts
- nx migrate instead of ng update
- nx report instead of ng version
- nx analytics to configure usage metrics
- nx doc to search the Angular documentation
- nx - -help to list parameters and examples for commands
- Conclusion
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Cleaning up the application project
- Deleting the Nx welcome component
- Converting the root component to a standalone component
- Conclusion
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Choosing library traits
- Workspace libraries
- Buildable libraries
- Publishable libraries
- Conclusion
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Picking a library type
- Application concerns
- Data access libraries
- UI libraries
- Feature libraries
- Utility libraries
- Test utility libraries
- End-to-end test utility libraries
- Domain libraries
- Conclusion
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Creating a feature library
- Creating a feature library
- Listing organization repositories
- Conclusion
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Creating a data access library
- Creating a data access library
- Adding Octokit REST
- Introducing the abortable operator
- Implementing the repository API service
- Creating a repository domain model
- Adding RxAngular State
- Implementing the repository state service
- Conclusion
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Loading repositories dynamically
- Connecting the organization route parameter to the repository state
- Passing an organization’s repositories from the repository state
- Accepting a repository domain object
- Passing a dynamic list of repository topics
- Optimizing the topics list visually
- Conclusion
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