nx/docs/shared/react-tutorial/1-code-generation.md

title	description
React Tutorial - Part 1: Code Generation	In this tutorial you'll create a frontend-focused workspace with Nx.

{% callout type="check" title="Two Styles of Repo" %} There are two styles of repos: integrated and package-based. This tutorial shows the integrated style.

You can find more information on the difference between the two in our introduction. {% /callout %}

React Tutorial - Part 1: Code Generation

Contents

• 1 - Code Generation
• 2 - Project Graph
• 3 - Task Running
• 4 - Workspace Optimization
• 5 - Summary

Your Objective

For this tutorial, you'll create two React applications, a React lib for your common components, and a library for your business logic as follows:

Creating an Nx Workspace

Run the command npx create-nx-workspace@latest and when prompted, provide the following responses:

✔ Choose your style                     · integrated
✔ What to create in the new workspace   · react
✔ Repository name                       · myorg
✔ Application name                      · store
✔ Default stylesheet format             · css
✔ Enable distributed caching to make your CI faster · No

{% card title="Opting into Nx Cloud" description="You will also be prompted whether to add Nx Cloud to your workspace. We won't address this in this tutorial, but you can see the introduction to Nx Cloud for more details." url="/nx-cloud/intro/what-is-nx-cloud" /%}

Once the command completes, notice two projects were added to the workspace:

• A React application located in apps/store.
• A Project for Cypress e2e tests for our store application in apps/store-e2e.

{% card title="Nx Cypress Support" description="While we see the Cypress project here, we won't go deeper on Cypress in this tutorial. You can find more materials on Nx Cypress support on the @nrwl/cypress package page." url="/packages/cypress" /%}

Adding Another Application to Your Workspace

Run this command to create your admin app:

>  NX  Generating @nrwl/react:application

CREATE apps/admin/.babelrc
CREATE apps/admin/.browserslistrc
CREATE apps/admin/src/app/app.spec.tsx
CREATE apps/admin/src/app/nx-welcome.tsx
CREATE apps/admin/src/assets/.gitkeep
CREATE apps/admin/src/environments/environment.prod.ts
CREATE apps/admin/src/environments/environment.ts
CREATE apps/admin/src/favicon.ico
CREATE apps/admin/src/index.html
CREATE apps/admin/src/main.tsx
CREATE apps/admin/src/polyfills.ts
CREATE apps/admin/tsconfig.app.json
CREATE apps/admin/tsconfig.json
CREATE apps/admin/src/app/app.module.css
CREATE apps/admin/src/app/app.tsx
CREATE apps/admin/src/styles.css
CREATE apps/admin/project.json
CREATE apps/admin/.eslintrc.json
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/cypress.config.ts
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/src/e2e/app.cy.ts
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/src/fixtures/example.json
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/src/support/app.po.ts
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/src/support/commands.ts
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/src/support/e2e.ts
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/tsconfig.json
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/project.json
CREATE apps/admin-e2e/.eslintrc.json
CREATE apps/admin/jest.config.ts
CREATE apps/admin/tsconfig.spec.json

Generating Libraries

To create the common-ui and products libraries, use the @nrwl/react:lib and @nrwl/js:lib generators respectively:

{% side-by-side %}

> NX Generating @nrwl/react:library

CREATE libs/common-ui/project.json
CREATE libs/common-ui/.eslintrc.json
CREATE libs/common-ui/.babelrc
CREATE libs/common-ui/README.md
CREATE libs/common-ui/src/index.ts
CREATE libs/common-ui/tsconfig.json
CREATE libs/common-ui/tsconfig.lib.json
UPDATE tsconfig.base.json
CREATE libs/common-ui/jest.config.ts
CREATE libs/common-ui/tsconfig.spec.json
CREATE libs/common-ui/src/lib/common-ui.module.css
CREATE libs/common-ui/src/lib/common-ui.spec.tsx
CREATE libs/common-ui/src/lib/common-ui.tsx

>  NX  Generating @nrwl/js:library

CREATE libs/products/README.md
CREATE libs/products/package.json
CREATE libs/products/src/index.ts
CREATE libs/products/src/lib/products.spec.ts
CREATE libs/products/src/lib/products.ts
CREATE libs/products/tsconfig.json
CREATE libs/products/tsconfig.lib.json
CREATE libs/products/.babelrc
CREATE libs/products/project.json
UPDATE tsconfig.base.json
CREATE libs/products/.eslintrc.json
CREATE libs/products/jest.config.ts
CREATE libs/products/tsconfig.spec.json

{% /side-by-side %}

You should now be able to see all four projects of our design:

• store in apps/store
• admin in apps/admin
• products in libs/products
• common-ui in libs/common-ui

What's Next

• Continue to 2: Project Graph