/ionic-capacitor-nx-monorepo

A demonstration of using Ionic w/ Capacitor in an Nx Monorepo.

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Steps Taken

  • npx create-nx-workspace@latest
    • I chose to build an angular app called www using scss and free Nx Cloud:
  • yarn global add @capacitor/cli
  • Open VS Code at the root of your new monorepo
  • yarn add @capacitor/cli --dev // YES you want it globally and local to the workspace
  • ionic init --multi-app
  • Using Nx Console
    • Generate a new Angular application called mobile
  • cd apps/mobile
  • npx cap init
  • Add a package.json with the just the name of the app in apps/mobile
  • ionic init
  • cd ../../
  • ionic cap add ios
  • Then I added a fake app in angular.json to create serve command I can trigger through Nx Console
  • Then I added the same fake app to nx.json so it doesn't complain about the apps not matching

IonicCapacitorNxMonorepo

This project was generated using Nx.

🔎 Nx is a set of Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos.

Quick Start & Documentation

Nx Documentation

10-minute video showing all Nx features

Interactive Tutorial

Adding capabilities to your workspace

Nx supports many plugins which add capabilities for developing different types of applications and different tools.

These capabilities include generating applications, libraries, etc as well as the devtools to test, and build projects as well.

Below are our core plugins:

  • Capacitor
    • yarn global add @capacitor/cli
  • Angular
    • ng add @nrwl/angular
  • React
    • ng add @nrwl/react
  • Web (no framework frontends)
    • ng add @nrwl/web
  • Nest
    • ng add @nrwl/nest
  • Express
    • ng add @nrwl/express
  • Node
    • ng add @nrwl/node

There are also many community plugins you could add.

Generate an application

Run ng g @nrwl/angular:app my-app to generate an application.

You can use any of the plugins above to generate applications as well.

When using Nx, you can create multiple applications and libraries in the same workspace.

Generate a library

Run ng g @nrwl/angular:lib my-lib to generate a library.

You can also use any of the plugins above to generate libraries as well.

Libraries are sharable across libraries and applications. They can be imported from @ionic-capacitor-nx-monorepo/mylib.

Development server

Run ng serve my-app for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

Run ng g component my-component --project=my-app to generate a new component.

Build

Run ng build my-app to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run ng test my-app to execute the unit tests via Jest.

Run nx affected:test to execute the unit tests affected by a change.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e my-app to execute the end-to-end tests via Cypress.

Run nx affected:e2e to execute the end-to-end tests affected by a change.

Understand your workspace

Run nx dep-graph to see a diagram of the dependencies of your projects.

Further help

Visit the Nx Documentation to learn more.

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