---
title: 'daemon - CLI command'
description: 'Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process.'
---

# daemon

Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process.

## Usage

```shell
nx daemon
```

Install `nx` globally to invoke the command directly using `nx`, or use `npx nx`, `yarn nx`, or `pnpm nx`.

## Options

| Option      | Type    | Description          |
| ----------- | ------- | -------------------- |
| `--help`    | boolean | Show help.           |
| `--start`   | boolean | (Default: `false`)   |
| `--stop`    | boolean | (Default: `false`)   |
| `--version` | boolean | Show version number. |