What is Nx?
Nx is an open-source build system and monorepo toolkit created by Nrwl, providing computation caching, a project dependency graph, code generators and detection of which projects are affected by a change. Nx Cloud adds optional, separately priced remote caching and distributed task execution for CI.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, Nx Cloud pricing.
Key capabilities
- Task caching: Local and (optionally) remote caching of build/test/lint tasks.
- Dependency graph: Visualize and query relationships between projects in a monorepo.
- Generators: Scaffold apps, libraries and code changes consistently.
Monorepo tooling, build caching and CI task distribution are its core areas.
Choose Nx when a codebase has grown into a monorepo and CI times or dependency management have become a bottleneck. It fits teams wanting local and CI-level caching without hand-building that tooling.
The core CLI is free and open source; only Nx Cloud's remote caching/CI distribution is a paid add-on, so measure actual CI time savings against its usage-based pricing before adopting it broadly.
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing model
- Open source
- API
- Not specified
- Website
- nx.dev ↗
Official resources
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