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Introduction Nx is a tool that manages monorepos and standardises tooling within that monorepo. As part of these standards, Nx provides a set of tools that allow users to quickly generate a static vanilla HTML website, without any complicated tooling. Prerequisites To begin, make sure we have an Nx workspace setup. npx create-nx-workspace@latest <workspace-name> ✔ Which stack do you want to use? · none ✔ Package-based monorepo, integrated monorepo, or standalone project?...

Introduction This is a short guide to help us understand how we can deciper an existing Nx plugin, to figure out what it does. A basic understanding of Nx plugins will be useful to the reader. Understanding the Plugin’s Behavior Entrypoint The best place to start our investigation is with a few files at the root of the plugin. generators.json migrations.json executors.json These are the entrypoints that define all tasks that the plugin will be able to undertake....

The Problem Over the years I’ve often needed to search for specific files by their name in Visual Studio Code, but never figured out how to do it. I had always assumed that a Command F would reveal the file to me, but nope, that always only searched within files. So I’ve had to always resort to using complicated bash commands from search engine results (searching a new method each time I needed to do this), or literally trying my luck poking at folders in a random search....