A Guide to Understanding Unfamiliar Nx Plugins

Introduction This is a short guide to help us understand how we can deciper an existing Nx plugin, to figure out what it does. A basic understanding of Nx plugins will be useful to the reader. Understanding the Plugin’s Behavior Entrypoint The best place to start our investigation is with a few files at the root of the plugin. generators.json migrations.json executors.json These are the entrypoints that define all tasks that the plugin will be able to undertake....

April 14, 2024 · Joel Tok