React Nx Tutorial - Step 1: Create Application

In this tutorial you use Nx to build a full-stack application out of common libraries using modern technologies.

Next.js: Nx also has first-class Next.js support. Read more about it here

This tutorial uses several Nx plugins to provide a rich dev experience. All the plugins are optional. Read about using Nx Core without plugins.

Create a new workspace

Start by creating a new workspace.

npx create-nx-workspace@latest

You then receive the following prompts in your command line:

Workspace name (e.g., org name)     myorg
What to create in the new workspace react
Application name                    todos
Default stylesheet format           CSS

Enter the indicated answers.

You can also choose to add Nx Cloud, but its not required for the tutorial.

myorg/
├── apps/
│   ├── todos/
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   │   ├── app/
│   │   │   ├── assets/
│   │   │   ├── environments/
│   │   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   │   ├── index.html
│   │   │   ├── main.tsx
│   │   │   ├── polyfills.ts
│   │   │   └── styles.css
│   │   ├── .babelrc
│   │   ├── .browserslistrc
│   │   ├── .eslintrc.json
│   │   ├── jest.config.js
│   │   ├── project.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.app.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.json
│   │   └── tsconfig.spec.json
│   └── todos-e2e/
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── fixtures/
│       │   │   └── example.json
│       │   ├── integration/
│       │   │   └── app.spec.ts
│       │   ├── plugins/
│       │   │   └── index.js
│       │   └── support/
│       │       ├── app.po.ts
│       │       ├── commands.ts
│       │       └── index.ts
│       ├── .eslintrc.json
│       ├── cypress.json
│       ├── project.json
│       └── tsconfig.json
├── libs/
├── tools/
├── .eslintrc.json
├── .prettierrc
├── babel.config.json
├── jest.config.js
├── jest.preset.js
├── nx.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
├── tsconfig.base.json
└── workspace.json

Two projects were added to the workspace:

  • A React application
  • E2E tests for the React application

Serve the newly created application

Now that the application is set up, run it locally via:

npx nx serve todos

Note on the Nx CLI

If you would prefer to run using a global installation of Nx, you can run:

nx serve todos

Depending on how your dev env is set up, the command above might result in Command 'nx' not found.

To fix it, you can either install the nx cli globally by running:

npm install -g nx

or

yarn global add nx

Alternatively, you can run the local installation of Nx by prepending every command with npx:

npx nx -- serve todos

or

yarn nx serve todos

What's Next