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]

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

[jcannon98188]

I'm about to undertake this same process this week, so I will report back on how it goes, but this does match what I would expect to do as part of this.

[Wayne-Mather]

@jcannon98188 How did it go? Work for you?

[jcannon98188]

Happy to report we successfully were able to do the ejection with almost no issues. There was some goofiness on our end from bad code choices (made before I got to the codebase I swear!) but the ejection process itself was smooth.

[Wayne-Mather]

@jcannon98188 Thats good to hear. Was it the same steps I mentioned above? Might be good to put some information here and then maybe we just close this thread as we now have a working method. I think at the time I created it was an older version of NX and it possibly did not use the angular json file but an nx.json from memory. I could be wrong - was 2022 after all!