Running Custom Commands
You can easily run any command with the Nx toolchain. The main benefit is to make the operation cacheable, distributable as well as being able to use it with Nx's affected commands.
1. Define the terminal command to be run
The command we want to run for each project is:
❯
make hello
With this Makefile in the root of the project:
1hello:
2 echo "Hello, world!"
32. Update project.json
For each project for which you want to enable make, add a target in its project.json:
project.json
1// ...
2"targets": {
3 "make": {
4 "command": "make hello"
5 }
6 // ...
7}
8For more information (e.g. how to forward arguments), see the run-commands api doc.
3. Run the command
To run the command, use the usual Nx syntax:
❯
nx run my-app:make
or
❯
nx make my-app
You can also run the make command for all projects it has been defined on:
❯
nx run-many -t make
Or just on a subset of projects that are affected by a given change:
❯
nx affected -t make