How the Project Graph is Built

Nx creates a graph of all the dependencies between projects in your workspace using three sources of information:

1. Package dependencies defined in the package.json file for each project.

   If the myapp/package.json file has this dependency:

   myapp/package.json

   1{ 2 "dependencies": { 3 "@myorg/awesome-library": "*" 4 } 5} 6

   Then my-app depends on awesome-library.

   Note: We typically use * for the dependency instead of a specific version because we want to depend on the version of the library as it currently exists in the repo.

2. Typescript import statements referencing a particular project's path alias

   For instance, if a file in my-app has this code:

   1import { something } from '@myorg/awesome-library'; 2

   Then my-app depends on awesome-library

   This can be turned on or off with the analyzeSourceFiles flag.

3. Manually created implicitDependencies in the project configuration file.

   If your project configuration has this content:

Then my-app depends on some-api.