Projects/Target Alias

[Bielik20]

Hello, I often structure my projects like so:

• apps
  • my-awesome-project
    • e2e
    • app

Intuitively I often run:

• nx run my-awesome-project:serve when I want nx run my-awesome-project-app:serve
• nx run my-awesome-project:e2e when I want nx run my-awesome-project-e2e:e2e

It would be nice to add support for project/target aliases. I already do a workaround, in apps/my-awesome-project/project.json I have:

{
	"name": "my-awesome-project",
	"$schema": "../../node_modules/nx/schemas/project-schema.json",
	"projectType": "application",
	"tags": ["alias"],
	"targets": {
		"serve": {
			"executor": "@root/workspace:noop-continuous",
			"continuous": true,
			"dependsOn": [
				{
					"projects": ["@root/my-awesome-project-app"],
					"target": "serve",
					"params": "forward"
				}
			]
		},
		"e2e": {
			"executor": "nx:noop",
			"dependsOn": [
				{
					"projects": ["@root/my-awesome-project-e2e"],
					"target": "e2e",
					"params": "forward"
				}
			]
		},
		"lint": {
			"executor": "nx:noop",
			"dependsOn": [
				{
					"projects": ["@root/my-awesome-project-*"],
					"target": "lint",
					"params": "forward"
				}
			]
		}
}

It works but it would be nice to have first party support for those cases.
It is not a pressing our necessary change change, the workaround works, it is a bit annoying that those targets appear in affected list etc. but again not the end of the world (I can always filter against alias tag).

BTW, noop-continuous is just:

import "dotenv/config";

export default async function noopContinuous() {
	await new Promise(() => null);

	return { success: true };
}