Getting Started with NX in your Workspace: An Installation Guide

The purpose of this article is to guide readers through the process of installing Nx in their workspace. Nx, a powerful suite of extensible dev tools, is usually installed as a project dependency, which offers the advantage of defining a specific version. This ensures consistency across various local and remote environments. By the end of this article, readers will have learned how to add Nx to their workspace and how to use it as a replacement for pnpm commands.

To add Nx to a workspace, it is recommended to use the 

 command. This utility is preferable as it allows the command to be run as if PNPM was started in the root of the workspace, instead of the current working directory. Additionally, using the 

 flag allows the installation of Nx as a dependency. For example:

 run as if pnpm was started in the root of the workspace instead of the current working directory

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# Getting Started with NX in your Workspace: An Installation Guide

## Introduction

The purpose of this article is to guide readers through the process of installing Nx in their workspace. Nx, a powerful suite of extensible dev tools, is usually installed as a project dependency, which offers the advantage of defining a specific version. This ensures consistency across various local and remote environments. By the end of this article, readers will have learned how to add Nx to their workspace and how to use it as a replacement for pnpm commands.

## Installing Nx

To add Nx to a workspace, it is recommended to use the `pnpm add` command. This utility is preferable as it allows the command to be run as if PNPM was started in the root of the workspace, instead of the current working directory. Additionally, using the `-D` flag allows the installation of Nx as a dependency. For example:

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