Remove @nrwl/nx and return back to normal angular cli

[Wayne-Mather]

Hi,

There are plenty of docs on how to add nx to an angular project, or start from nx with the angular schematics. My question is how do I go back to just a standard angular cli application?

I know I can just start a new project and copy the required files over, but was wondering if there is an easier way to just move back to normal angular schematics?

I used NX because I thought the project would have more than 1 project, but since it never will, I don't need the overhead of the nx upgrade complexities. It's an NX v9 workspace that I want to take to a v13 standard angular app.

Any information on how to achieve this easily would be appreciated.

[aaronscribner]

This would be useful, but seems like they do not want to give directions on removing it.

[Ser-Custodio]

Hi, did you ever find out how to do it ?

[Ser-Custodio]

I'm using the latest (20.6.2) but finding to many bugs so since I only have 1 project inside guess I'm gonna do as you did. Not finding anything in the docs for that :D

[Wayne-Mather]

I might have got it. Again, have backups to validate this does work..

1. Create a new angular project: ng new myapp
2. In the nx repo move nx.json to nxjson.old
3. Copy angular.json from myapp into nx repo
4. Copy tsconfig* from myapp into nx repo
5. Move apps\xxx\src into main nx folder
6. ng build should now work
7. Delete the apps directory, .nx directory and the nx json file
8. You should now have a angular repo that works as expected
9. You can also remove the myapp folder as not needed anymore

The reason I copied the config files from the angular project instead of src was to ensure they are for angular incase nx has anything that could break something.

Again, was for an nx monorepo with a single angular project in it using nx 20.6.2

[Ser-Custodio]

Thank you, gonna give that a try 👌

[Wayne-Mather]

@Ser-Custodio how did it go? Did this work for you?

[Ser-Custodio]

Didn't try yet, need aprouval from rest of the team. I'll let you know if is accepted