Building Modular Angular Apps with the Nx Standalone Project Setup

[@nxdevtools]

Further useful infos: Tutorial: nx.dev/tutorials/angular-standalone-tutorial Final result repo: github.com/nrwl/nx-recipes/tree/main/standalone-angular-app Slack Community: go.nrwl.io/join-slack

[@EdemSeitnebiiev]

even as not english native speaker I got everything u have say, it is the best explain of NX, thank u!

[@OussamaDinia]

This is a game changer for us developers, to start using nx and also well structuring our angular apps for progressing towards monorepo only if necessary. it is also a good way to become more familiar with many nx commands. really cool :)

[@Nabulio85]

Really great. Thank you for your explanations. I've been working with Angular for five years and I'm just launching it with Nx.

[@carlosabud]

Great video man, keep it up!

[@Supaship6000]

💯Juri rocks!!

[@AgustinCampon]

On my next project Im gonna try nx ! Looks really solid

[@jairusshole8622]

I never understood why one would need to use a monorepo until now! Thank you sir!

[@nxdevtools]

You're welcome - Juri

[@muhamedkarajic]

We want for the CI also a video :)

[@PackAndGoFamily]

Nice, would be very nice also. Give some example scenarios how to Setup a CI as you said. I know i can be done you many ways, but maybe try to select the most common scenarios. Thanks for the video.

[@dryphresque7113]

Thank you for the video, a understand a lot 👍

[@fieryscorpion]

Great video. This is quite interesting! Do you have the next video out yet? Thanks!

[@KiffinGish]

Great video, thanks. You create a shared ui component, but what would one use this for? What about shared header and footer components, would they be placed in here also. What about a shared material library?

[@tm-tk8ez]

literally my question! I was so curious how he would use the ui lib. I've came across this video while looking for a help: I'd like to have one common library that would provide material-based components. @nx/angular:library generates a standalone component by default and I'd imagine such library would be a module which would provide multiple non-standalone components. From brief look, feels like nx generators does not support such approach, or am I wrong?

[@Santon-Motho]

OMG I finally SEE the value of Nx! This was a gem of a video. I might be assuming too much right now, but I'm excited to explore Nx a lot more now. Please keep uploading such videos

[@nxdevtools]

💙 we will 💪 - Juri

[@fieryscorpion]

Q: Why is @nx/angular a dependency and not a dev dependency? Can you please explain? Thanks!

[@sambio2122]

Bravo ❤ 🎉!!!

[@igorr4682]

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[@juristr]

Hey, sorry you feel that you didn’t find it useful for learning more about the topic. Any particular parts you didn’t like? Or want me (us) to improve on?

[@valikonen]

I really don't understand why you don't create many projects to use the shared modules. Your scenario can be done simpler with angular cli and don't need an extra layer like NX. I miss something?

[@sivuyilemagutywa5286]

Try adding an IONIC app in an Angular CLI Workspace, Angular Workspace is good for simple projects, but with NX, it can save a lot of time. For I don't see a reason to ever use Angular CLI Workspace, even for small apps. Nx is more than just a Workspace.

[@HarveyDaclan]

Hi Juri, thanks for this tutorial. I usually have a shared theme in my projects. How do I share scss files from one library to another? Is this possible in both standalone and monorepo projects?

[@Supaship6000]

scss is a weirder piece to work with for Nx. You can do stuff like make a project for it to "bucket" it into it's own space, but usually the way I handle things with styles is to create a lib (or multiple libs) with shared components that use the styles in question. (I also tend to go for tailwind though!! lol)

[@MartinPultz]

I noticed that their were some merges around eslint v8 to v9. I thought maybe running the migration from 16.5 to 16.6 might perform that update. Is that something that hasn't quite made it's way into an Nx release, but eventually would self update or do I need to perform that update myself? Feels like the answer is yes it will update, but wasn't sure after my last nx migrate. Cheers! Reply

[@0brooo]

I am running multiple angular websites and their build time and package time is taking up 6 gb of ram. I’ve done everything from caching to using run-many. I tried esbuild but no success. Any ideas?

[@ankushkalia6982]

Can i convert a standalone app to monorepo setup in future?

[@valikonen]

At least with module federation, yes.

[@Supaship6000]

This is one of the more requested features we've seen. I don't believe we have a generator for this yet to automate the process, but it can be done manually by moving around files!

[@foreignworkers2006]

Kudos

[@leonardocamargo5412]

If I need to create a small module within the application. For example: Customer module, which has only the following components: Registration form page; Edit form page; Page of the table with the list of customers. NX will create a local library of clients. As this is a small module, won't separating it into a local library make the project too big and cumbersome? Besides, as a local library will be, instead of installing its own dependencies, is it okay if I use the dependencies globally in the application?

[@punplatuna]

Hi, I'm new to NX console and I've been trying to follow this tutorial I have a few questions: Regarding the shared/ui directory, should I place shared UI components like a navbar or footer there? like shared/ui/src/lib/ui-navbar right ? If I want to create a UI for a feature, what steps should I follow?

[@juristr]

Hey! Yeah you can. The structure I show in the video is really just one possible way of structuring. But yeah, usually you structure the folders based on the domain area, meaning if you have shared things that can be used across the entire app you'd place them there. That's mostly just for developers as a help to orientate. A structure could be modules/

[@alessandrocolinucci3315]

@@juristr Great answer and structure! I have a small question I hope you can help me with it because this drives me crazy: let's suppose we have the use case of the video, different "orders" and "products" domains, with linting for bounding rules. In this case, I have NgRx installed, and in the "orders" domain I want to show the top 10 products to make an upsell. I can achieve this with an NgRx selector that is declared in a "data-access" lib of the "products" domain. How can I use this selector inside a lib in the "orders" domain without breaking the linting rules for boundaries?

[@Supaship6000]

@@alessandrocolinucci3315 NgRx makes for an interesting case when it comes to creating out a separate data-access lib. Here's an older video where I address that issue exactly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpjUeWSNjLeBnqMm30s

[@alessandrocolinucci3315]

​@@Supaship6000 That's a great tip! Thank you

[@Supaship6000]

@@alessandrocolinucci3315 glad it helped!

[@iliasdinia6475]

About the lazy loaded routes, when you type .then and use the onfulfilled function. Did you create that function somewhere ? Could you please explain how and why are you using it ? It did not work for me , i did plenty of research. In the end I just decided to remove it and use a lazy loaded route without the onfulfilled thing

[@BobMazzo]

Interesting how changing the port num in project.json and e2e\cypress.config.ts is NOT recognized. Cache related I imagine..

[@Matheus_1582]

Como introduzir isso no IONIC...???

[@nemanjazivaljevic1656]

Can someone help me with this? I have multiple angular apps that use UI components from libs file. The problem is that nx doesn't tree shake them, it bundle everithing.

[@Supaship6000]

You can use Nx to create multiple libs to section your components better, but iirc, we don't run our own "nx bundler" for Angular apps - we just use Angular's builder for this - and tree-shaking should be happening at that level. I wonder though if it's possible that you are referencing the unused components somehow so that they wouldn't get tree-shaken? 🤔

[@aram5642]

Why does a new library always have to create a component? Couldn't there be a flag to disable this behavior?

[@aritrobiswas1731]

nx graph is showing static load instead of dynamic. In browser page is lazy loading , anyone facing the same issue ?

[@ernstdettbarn3822]

Nice nice nice

[@iliasdinia6475]

Great video! However you do everything way too fast. That makes it a struggle for less experienced developers