Nx 15.7 — Node Support, Angular LTS, Lockfile Pruning
Blog post from Nx
The latest Nx release introduces several updates and features, enhancing its capabilities and support for developers. This release celebrates reaching 10,000 YouTube subscribers, highlighting the platform's commitment to providing educational content on developer tooling and monorepos. Key updates include the introduction of first-class Node support, allowing for improved development of Node-based applications with frameworks like ExpressJS, Fastify, and Koa, along with Angular version detachment, which offers flexibility in using different Angular versions. Additionally, the release includes enhancements to the Nx Plugin Guides, support for Storybook 7.0 beta, and more flexible Webpack configurations. Lockfile parsing and pruning have been improved to handle different package manager formats, and the release introduces the ability to generate package.json and lock files for Docker packaging. The update also outlines the process for upgrading Nx and hints at future developments, such as Deno support, improvements to Nx Console, and expansion into non-JS environments.