Root Level Task to Run Many

[kevinswarner]

I want to create a root level task in my repo that essentially runs all of the specific matching tasks in the project. For example, let's say I have 20 project that have a "typecheck" task. I know I can do this, and this is fine...

nx run-many -t typecheck

But, it would be nice to do this...

nx typecheck

I have tried two approaches. One works, but the output is mangled in the terminal UI, while the other works very nicely, but feels odd (like there should be a better way to do this.)

Option 1

The first options simply adds a target in the root project.json file like this...

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/nx/schemas/project-schema.json",
  "targets": {
    "typecheck": {
      "command": "nx run-many -t typecheck"
    }
  }
}

But, this ends up generating output in the terminal window that includes a large amount of extra line breaks and strange, mangled output in general. It is definitely different from the output when running the command directly in the terminal.

Option 2

This option works nicely and the output in the terminal ui is very nice.

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/nx/schemas/project-schema.json",
  "targets": {
    "typecheck": {
      "executor": "nx:run-commands",
      "options": {
        "commands": []
      },
      "dependsOn": [
        {
          "projects": ["*"],
          "target": "typecheck"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

I am fine using this approach. It just seems a bit odd.

Am I missing a better way to do this? Again, the alternatives are fine, and using run-many directly from the terminal is also fine, I just wanted to provide an even simpler syntax for our developers.

Thanks!