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/web:application ...
Show what will be generated without writing to disk:
nx g application ... --dry-run

Options

babelJest

Default: false
Type: boolean
Use babel instead ts-jest

directory

Type: string
The directory of the new application.

e2eTestRunner

Default: cypress
Type: string
Possible values: cypress, none
Test runner to use for end to end (e2e) tests

linter

Default: eslint
Type: string
Possible values: eslint, tslint
The tool to use for running lint checks.

name

Type: string
The name of the application.

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.

skipFormat

Default: false
Type: boolean
Skip formatting files

standaloneConfig

Default: false
Type: boolean
Split the project configuration into <projectRoot>/project.json rather than including it inside workspace.json

style

Default: css
Type: string
Possible values: css, scss, styl, less
The file extension to be used for style files.

tags

Type: string
Add tags to the application (used for linting)

unitTestRunner

Default: jest
Type: string
Possible values: jest, none
Test runner to use for unit tests