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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Smart caching and tasks distributed across multiple build agents significantly improves build time. Only runs build tasks with changes. Remote caches can be shared. Migration functionality can keep all workspace dependencies up to date for everyone. Built-in task executors support linting, testing, dev servers, etc.

Tradeoffs

All the examples, docs, core plugins etc, assume you’re working in the JS/TS ecosystem, but it is actually a general purpose build system.

Is nx a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2022-12-01. Summary updated .

Why consider it

It improves build time with smart caching and distributed tasks.

Keep in mind

Its documentation and examples are biased towards the JS/TS ecosystem.

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