application

Create an application

Usage

nx generate application ...

nx g app ... # same

By default, Nx will search for application in the default collection provisioned in workspace.json.

You can specify the collection explicitly as follows:

nx g @nrwl/gatsby:application ...

Show what will be generated without writing to disk:

nx g application ... --dry-run

Options

directory

Alias(es): d

Type: string

A directory where the project is placed

e2eTestRunner

Default: cypress

Type: string

Possible values: cypress, none

Adds the specified e2e test runner

js

Default: false

Type: boolean

Generate JavaScript files rather than TypeScript files

name

Type: string

setParserOptionsProject

Default: false

Type: boolean

Whether or not to configure the ESLint "parserOptions.project" option. We do not do this by default for lint performance reasons.

style

Alias(es): s

Default: css

Type: string

Possible values: css, scss, styl, less, styled-components, @emotion/styled, styled-jsx, none

The file extension to be used for style files.

tags

Alias(es): t

Type: string

Add tags to the project (used for linting)

unitTestRunner

Default: jest

Type: string

Possible values: jest, none

Adds the specified unit test runner