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# Nx Workspace Patterns

> Configure and optimize Nx monorepo workspaces.

Production patterns for configuring and optimizing Nx monorepos so large codebases stay fast and maintainable. It leverages the Nx project graph to run only affected projects in CI, enforces module boundaries with ESLint so architecture can't silently rot, and sets up local plus remote computation caching. Keep a multi-app monorepo from turning into a 'big ball of mud.'

## Use cases
- Setting up a new Nx workspace with apps and shared libs
- Cutting CI time with nx affected build/test/lint
- Enforcing module boundaries between feature, ui, and util libraries
- Configuring local and remote (Nx Cloud or S3) computation caching
- Standardizing library scaffolding with custom generators
- Migrating an existing repo to Nx

## Benefits
- CI runs only what changed instead of the whole repo
- Architecture violations caught at lint time, not in review
- Repeated builds pulled from cache in seconds
- Consistent, error-free library creation across the team

## What’s included
- Annotated nx.json with cacheable operations, target defaults, and named inputs
- Project.json templates with build/serve/test/lint executors and configurations
- ESLint module-boundary rules with type and scope tag constraints
- Custom feature-library generator that auto-assigns tags and config
- GitHub Actions CI workflow using nx affected and nx-set-shas
- Remote caching setup for Nx Cloud and self-hosted S3

## Who it’s for
For platform and DevOps teams managing large multi-app monorepos that need fast CI and enforced architectural boundaries.

## How it runs
Editing a spec file should never invalidate a build cache. Tuning Nx until that holds, with module boundaries enforced as lint rules, is the whole point of this loop.
1. Map the workspace first: apps versus libs, then classify every library as feature, ui, data-access or util and attach type and scope tags at generation time.
2. Write nx.json with intent: cacheableOperations for build, lint, test and e2e, plus namedInputs that split production inputs from test and config files, so a spec file change never invalidates the build cache.
3. Lock module boundaries as lint rules: the enforce-module-boundaries ESLint rule with depConstraints (feature may use ui, data-access and util; ui never imports feature; util only imports util), then run nx graph to surface circular dependencies.
4. Wire CI around affected analysis: nx-set-shas derives base and head SHAs, then nx affected with parallel lint, test and build runs only the changed subtree instead of the whole repo.
5. Enable remote caching through Nx Cloud or a self-hosted S3 runner so CI and local machines pull each other's build artifacts instead of rebuilding.
6. Standardize scaffolding with custom generators that assign tags and project.json config automatically, so the boundary rules survive every new library.

## FAQ
### We use Turborepo. Do these patterns carry over?
The ideas overlap, affected-only CI and computation caching exist in both worlds, but everything concrete here is Nx-specific: nx.json target defaults, project.json executors, the ESLint boundary rules, and the Nx Cloud or S3 remote cache setup. Treat it as an Nx playbook, not a generic monorepo one.

### How are module boundaries enforced beyond a diagram nobody reads?
Through ESLint rules driven by type and scope tags on every library, so a feature lib importing another team's internals fails lint before it reaches review. The custom generator auto-assigns those tags at creation, which closes the usual gap of someone forgetting to tag a new library.

### Will this speed up our small single-app repo?
Honestly, no. Affected commands and remote caching pay off when a project graph has many apps and libraries to skip; in a small repo there's little to skip and you inherit the configuration overhead. It earns its keep at multi-app, multi-team scale.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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