What am I missing?

[ivanji]

I'm using the latest NX version, and attempting to set semver up for the first time. When I go through the installation process I enter an interactive mode where I specify the projects, etc. After this is completed nothing happens (no files are changed). I thought this would immediately create some tasks that we could run later on. If I move to the next step in the readme (Usage) - nx run my-project:version nothing happens either, which I believe it's because during the first step there was no target version created.

Am I understanding this correctly?

[ivanji]

OK, I've explored this a bit further and realised that it's because we mainly rely on package.json instead of project.json on each of our libraries. project.json only had a root specified, if I add the targets property then when I run semver install, the version target gets added and everything from them on works as expected.

[edbzn]

Hi @ivanji, do you mean that you had no workspace.json configuration?

[ivanji]

I do have a workspace.json configuration, but nowadays NX only uses it to specify the projects locations. The problem I encountered initially was because we were not using project.json files within any of our NX projects. Just relying on package.json - which I believe it's a valid approach - based on this https://nx.dev/configuration/packagejson. At the same time if we wanted to make use of NX plugins we'd need to have one for each package (with the correct schema).

[edbzn]

Ok, yeah actually we don't handle workspace without global workspace.json configuration, I opened an issue to fix that, but I think there's another issue with package.json projects only as well.

[jpetri-de]

@edbzn, I ran into the same problem: I do not have a workspace.json in a NX 14 workspace. Do you have a solution or an idea for a workaround? Thanks a lot!