Angular Plugin

The Nx Plugin for Angular contains executors, generators, and utilities for managing Angular applications, and libraries within an Nx workspace. It provides:

• Integration with libraries such as Jest, Cypress, Karma, Protractor, and Storybook.
• Helper services, and functions to use along with NgRx libraries.
• Scaffolding for upgrading AngularJS applications.
• Scaffolding for creating buildable libraries that can be published to npm.
• Utilities for automatic workspace refactoring.

Adding the Angular plugin

Adding the Angular plugin to a workspace can be done with the following:

#yarn
yarn add -D @nrwl/angular

#npm
npm install -D @nrwl/angular

Angular Projects in an Nx Workspace

Building Angular applications within an Nx workspace is similar to building within a vanilla Angular CLI workspace, with a few differences.

• Jest is used as the default unit test runner, configurable in the generators section of the workspace configuration file.
• Cypress is used as the default E2E test runner, configurable in the generators section of the workspace configuration.
• E2E tests are included in a separate project from the Angular application itself.
• The Nx CLI delegates common commands such as build, serve, test, lint, and e2e to the Angular CLI.

The file structure for an Angular application looks like:

myorg/
├── apps/
│   ├── myapp/
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   │   ├── app/
│   │   │   ├── assets/
│   │   │   ├── environments/
│   │   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   │   ├── index.html
│   │   │   ├── main.ts
│   │   │   ├── polyfills.ts
│   │   │   ├── styles.scss
│   │   │   └── test.ts
│   │   ├── browserslist
│   │   ├── jest.conf.js
│   │   ├── tsconfig.app.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.spec.json
│   │   └── tslint.json
│   └── myapp-e2e/
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── fixtures/
│       │   │   └── example.json
│       │   ├── integration/
│       │   │   └── app.spec.ts
│       │   ├── plugins/
│       │   │   └── index.ts
│       │   └── support/
│       │       ├── app.po.ts
│       │       ├── commands.ts
│       │       └── index.ts
│       ├── cypress.json
│       ├── tsconfig.e2e.json
│       ├── tsconfig.json
│       └── tslint.json
├── libs/
├── tools/
├── angular.json
├── nx.json
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.base.json
├── tslint.json
└── README.md

See Also

• Using DataPersistence
• Using NgRx
• Upgrading an AngularJS application to Angular

Executors / Builders

• package - Bundles artifacts for a buildable library that can be distributed as an NPM package.

Generators

• application - Create an Angular application
• downgrade-module - Setup Downgrade Module
• karma - Add karma configuration to a workspace
• karma-project - Add karma testing to a project
• library - Create an Angular library
• move - Move an Angular application or library to another folder within the workspace
• ngrx - Add and use NgRx for state management
• stories - Create stories/specs for all components declared in a library
• storybook-configuration - Setup configuration for Storybook
• upgrade-module - Add an upgrade module

Public API

• DataPersistence - Angular Service that provides convenience methods for common operations of persisting data.
• fetch - Handles data fetching, and correct ordering of fetching using NgRx Effects
• navigation - Handles data fetching based on navigating to a certain component using NgRx Effects
• optimisticUpdate - Handles optimistic updates (updating the client first) using NgRx Effects.
• pessimisticUpdate - Handles pessimistic updates (updating the server first) fetching using NgRx Effects. NxModule - An NgModule used to register the Angular providers, including DataPersistence.