Introduction to NX Monorepos For Beginners

Explore monorepos and polyrepos, compare code sharing, unified development experience, and atomic changes in a single repo versus separate ones, and learn when to choose each for your ci/cd pipelines.

Explore the advantages and disadvantages of monorepos with NX. Learn how NX facilitates code sharing, consistent practices, and centralized CI/CD, while addressing size, performance, access control, and learning curve.

Install Node.js and npm to set up your JavaScript development environment. Verify versions with node -v and npm -v, then prepare to install the NX CLI to manage NX projects.

Install the NX CLI globally using npm install -g nx, with optional sudo, verify installation by running nx --version, and prepare to create your first NX workspace.

Set up your first NX workspace with the NX workspace generator, choosing an integrated repository and skipping CI options, then open the workspace in a code editor.

Explore the NX workspace structure, including the root, apps, libs, tools, node_modules, vscode settings, and key files like index.json, project.json, nx.json, tsconfig.json, package.json, with default project and task runner options.

Explore nx.json and package.json to understand workspace settings, project layout, and scripts, and learn how project.json files configure building, testing, and serving apps and libs.

Create your first nx angular application in a workspace using the nx cli, choosing sass and Cypress with a webpack build, then run a development server to view your app.

Create a reusable Angular library in an nx workspace using the nx cli, generating mylib with its standard source structure to promote modular, shareable code across applications.

Discover the differences between applications and libraries in nx workspace, and learn when to place standalone apps in the apps directory and reusable code in the libs directory for modularity.

Explore how to manage project configuration in an NX monorepo using project.json files to define project type, source route, and targets, build, serve, and test tasks with executors and options.

Explore the nx.json file and workspace-wide settings, including the MPM scope for namespacing, the default base, affected projects, task runner options, and workspace layouts.

Explore the nx dependency graph to visualize workspace relationships, generate graph with the nx CLI, and use the interactive view to see which projects and dependencies are affected by changes.

Explore NX affected commands to optimize builds and tests in a large monorepo by generating a dependency graph and rebuilding or testing only the projects impacted by recent changes.

Learn to use nx generators and schematics to automate repetitive tasks, scaffold Angular components, modules, and services, and enforce consistency across your workspace with custom plugins and generators.

Customize schematics in an nx workspace to automate code generation and enforce standards. Use name-based options in a template-driven generator and run with nx g to create files.

Explore nx executors and learn how they run build, serve, and test tasks in your workspace via project.json and the nx cli, and create custom executors to automate workflows.

Automate workflows with NX by defining a custom workflow using executors and generators to build and test your app, with watch mode and the NX console.

Share code across nx workspaces by creating a shared Angular library, import standalone components, and promote code reuse for a cleaner, more efficient monorepo.

Explore module federation in NX to load remote modules dynamically and build flexible micro-frontend architectures by exposing and consuming modules with built-in NX commands.

Set up linting and code formatting in NX workspaces using ESLint and Prettier. Enable format on save in VS Code and adjust Prettier rc for single quotes and trailing comma.

Learn to run unit and end-to-end tests with NX, using Jest for unit tests and Cypress for end-to-end tests, including tests for app components.

Integrate NX with CI/CD pipelines to automate tests and builds, using GitHub Actions to provide continuous feedback and keep code deployable.

Plan and set up a real world NX monorepo by defining scope, identifying apps and libraries, scaffolding a task manager web app, shared utilities, and a NodeJS backend API.

Integrate multiple modules in an Nx monorepo by connecting a task API backend with the frontend using shared libraries and an http client to fetch and reuse tasks.

Learn how to build production-ready Angular and Node.js applications, package them with Docker, push the images to a container registry, and deploy with Kubernetes or Docker Compose.

Learn to troubleshoot NX monorepos by diagnosing build failures from terminal messages, updating dependencies with npm install, resolving conflicts with npm ls, and speeding builds with nx affected and caching.

Modularize NX monorepos code into reusable libraries, enforce ESLint and Prettier, test with Jest and Cypress, use affected commands and caching, visualize dependencies, and automate workflows with executors and generators.

Wrap up the course by highlighting key takeaways on NX and monorepos, including workspace setup, applications and libraries, dependency graphs, affected commands, and module federation for scalable front-end architectures.

Access resources for further learning on NX monorepos, Linux, and related tech, including the NX docs, guides, API references, and active communities on GitHub, Slack, and social media.

Explore how to set up NX workspaces, create applications and libraries, and leverage core and advanced NX features to plan, build, and deploy real-world monorepo projects.