Automating for Speed and Quality with the Nx Devkit - Juri Strumpflohner - Nx Conf 2021

One of Nx’s primary advantages is seamless integration of different tools through automation which we roughly categorized into: executors, generators, and plugins. Nx comes with different packages that already have all of these built-in, but you can also leverage the @nrwl/devkit API to create custom generators, executors and plugins to meet the needs of your specific workspace.
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[jornejongsma]

22:30 "Now let me also use skip nx cache...", Pretty critical!

[avimehenwal]

I was building something similar like what NX generator does using old tool called yeoman. Glad I found this tutorial. NX is great, now I am using it for all of my projects "at scale".
great job people @Narwhal, kudos

[moatorres]

Is it just me or everyone that has at some point created a `cli-deps` symlinked-local-library to speed up things, is absolutely mindblown by Nx?

[jackbarry]

Getting a POC set up to try out Nx, this answered a lot of questions I had about getting started with Executors/Generators/Plugins. Thanks!

[BrianVanderbusch]

why would i keep project configuration such as implicitDependencies in a separate file at the root of repo instead having it in the project.json of the project? Seems like a bad idea to split this configuration out as it makes it harder to debug or pickup for new contributors.

[adamzugasti]

Are there example plugins for iOS development?

[jandrorojas]

can someone please explain to me how on earth can I use a generator from an executor and vice versa?

[additionaddict]

I don’t like the implicitDependacies hack. Coming down the line are devkit apis that calculate the project dependencies and this pollutes the output from this. I prefer nx:run-commands and sticking nx build plug-in as first entry in build > options > commands array.