Prepare dependencies of current package before running a script?

[elado]

What's the nx way to "prepare dependencies" of a package?

I want to keep my existing yarn scripts, e.g. "start": "next dev" but want to ensure that all the dependencies of the current package are built. So something like "start": "nx prepare @scope/app:start && next dev". Technically I expect it to satisfy the environment according to the defined targetDependencies of the current script, without running the script on the current package.

This would mostly fit uncachable scripts like starting a server or running ad-hoc lint/test with specific files, or test watchers.

  "targetDependencies": {
    "build": [
      {
        "target": "build",
        "projects": "dependencies"
      }
    ],
    "start": [
      {
        "target": "build",
        "projects": "dependencies"
      }
    ]
  },

[fregante]

build-deps seems to be the right command, if your apps has it. This is not very well documented: https://nx.dev/technologies/typescript/recipes/switch-to-workspaces-project-references#register-nx-typescript-plugin