Plugins / Generators / Executors

[kevinswarner]

We are adopting Nx and so far it has been a good experience. However, I am now working to add some capabilities to our setup that requires a few generators and executors. The documentation is helpful, but when using the Nx plugins to scaffold a plugin or a generator, that plugin creates a lot of files and modifies some existing files. I prefer to have a minimal approach that I can follow, and have information on why something is added, or why something is modified. For example, when I scaffolded a generator, the Nx plugin modified my base tsconfig, without explanation on why. I understand that these plugins (the Nx plugins) are there to make things easier, but then I have to spend a lot of time just understanding all of the things that were added and figure out why. I don't mean to rant. Just wondered if there are any minimal examples and documented explanations of what is being created and added when I use one of these Nx plugins to scaffold something. Appreciate any guidance here. Thanks!