@nx/web:application

Create a web application using swc or babel as compiler.

Examples

Create an application named my-app:

1nx g @nx/web:application my-app 2

Usage

1nx generate application ... 2
1nx g app ... #same 2

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

You can specify the collection explicitly as follows:

1nx g @nx/web:application ... 2

Show what will be generated without writing to disk:

1nx g application ... --dry-run 2

Options

name

Required
string
Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z][^:]*$

The name of the application.

bundler

string
Default: webpack
Accepted values: webpack, none, vite

The bundler to use.

compiler

string
Default: swc
Accepted values: swc, babel

The compiler to use

directory

string

The directory of the new application.

e2eTestRunner

string
Default: playwright
Accepted values: playwright, cypress, none

Test runner to use for end to end (e2e) tests

inSourceTests

boolean
Default: false

When using Vitest, separate spec files will not be generated and instead will be included within the source files.

linter

string
Default: eslint
Accepted values: eslint, none

The tool to use for running lint checks.

projectNameAndRootFormat

string
Accepted values: as-provided, derived

Whether to generate the project name and root directory as provided (as-provided) or generate them composing their values and taking the configured layout into account (derived).

style

string
Default: css

The file extension to be used for style files.

setParserOptionsProject

boolean
Default: false

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

strict

boolean
Default: true

Creates an application with strict mode and strict type checking.

tags

string

Add tags to the application (used for linting)

unitTestRunner

string
Default: vitest
Accepted values: vitest, jest, none

Test runner to use for unit tests. Default value is 'jest' when using 'webpack' or 'none' as the bundler and 'vitest' when using 'vite' as the bundler

skipFormat

Internal
boolean
Default: false

Skip formatting files

standaloneConfig

Deprecated
boolean
Default: true

Split the project configuration into <projectRoot>/project.json rather than including it inside workspace.json

Nx only supports standaloneConfig