Fast, Effortless CI

Nx has introduced Nx Agents, a new product designed to significantly improve the speed and manageability of continuous integration (CI) pipelines by leveraging an advanced build system approach. Unlike traditional CI tools that require explicit, low-level configuration, Nx operates by understanding the relationships between tasks, automatically caching results, and optimizing task execution both locally and across multiple machines. This shift allows for more efficient distribution of tasks, especially in complex monorepo environments, and supports dynamic resource allocation to save costs. Nx Agents can parallelize tasks, automatically split large end-to-end tests, and identify flaky tasks for automatic re-execution, enhancing the reliability and efficiency of CI processes. Additionally, tasks that cannot be run on Nx Agents can be easily flagged to execute on a different CI provider, offering flexibility in task management.