Generate an angular@16 project within nx workspace

Nx Workspace is a powerful tool that provides monorepo-style development for Angular projects. It offers enhanced capabilities for managing multiple applications, libraries, and shared code within a single workspace. In this article we will see how to generate an Angular 16 project withing NX workspace.

Prerequisites:

• Node.js and npm (or yarn) are installed on your system.
• An existing Nx workspace.
• Angular Basics

What is NX Workspace?

Nx is a powerful way to manage multi-project applications. It also has support for Angular 16. Nx is designed to simplify development within a monorepo (Mono = Single, Repo = Repository) structure. A monorepo is a single version control repository that covers all your projects. Nx provides features and functionalities to effectively manage these projects within a monorepo, enhancing user experience and build performance.

Benefits of using NX Workspace

• Improved Developer Experience: Nx offers a streamlined development workflow with a unified CLI, automation, and code generation which makes for a good developer experience.
• Faster Builds and Tests: Nx employs caching mechanisms and parallelization techniques to reduced build time and testing.
• Simplified Dependency Management: Nx streamlines dependency management within the monorepo, reducing versioning issues and simplifying the development process.
• Scalability and Maintainability: Nx uses the efficient organization and management of large and complex projects, which makes it easier to scale and maintain over time.

Steps to Generate Angular Project

Step 1: Install Nx.dev globally if you haven’t already

npm install -g create-nx-workspace

Step 2: Creating NX workspace

Use npx-create-nx-workspace to generate nx workspace.

command : npx create-nx-workspace my-nx-workspace

After this command, it will ask us to choose stack, we will use “angular with modern tooling” option.

selecting stack for nx workspace generation

Choose remaining options as you want, and wait some time for workspace generation.

Step 3: Generate the Angular application

Use the Nx generator with the @nrwl/angular:app to create a new Angular application using following command.

 nx generate @nrwl/angular:app my-angular-app

This command will generate angular app in our nx directory.

Note : Replace “my-angular-app” with your application name of choice.

Step 4: Build and serve the application

Once the generation is complete, we can build and serve your new Angular application. Use following command to serve and build the application.

command : nx serve my-angular-app

Note : This command will build the application and start a server at http://localhost:4200 by default

Output:

Output