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print-affected - CLI command

Deprecated: Use nx show projects --affected, nx affected --graph -t build or nx graph --affected depending on which best suits your use case. The print-affected command was removed in Nx 19.

Prints information about the projects and targets affected by changes

Terminal window
nx print-affected

Install nx globally to invoke the command directly using nx, or use npx nx, yarn nx, or pnpm nx.

Print information about affected projects and the project graph:

Terminal window
nx print-affected

Print information about the projects affected by the changes between main and HEAD (e.g,. PR):

Terminal window
nx print-affected --base=main --head=HEAD

Prints information about the affected projects and a list of tasks to test them:

Terminal window
nx print-affected -t test

Prints the projects property from the print-affected output:

Terminal window
nx print-affected -t build --select=projects

Prints the tasks.target.project property from the print-affected output:

Terminal window
nx print-affected -t build --select=tasks.target.project

Type: string

Base of the current branch (usually main)

Type: string

This is the configuration to use when performing tasks on projects

Type: string

Exclude certain projects from being processed

Type: string

Change the way Nx is calculating the affected command by providing directly changed files, list of files delimited by commas or spaces

Type: string

Latest commit of the current branch (usually HEAD)

Type: boolean

Show help

Type: string

Select the subset of the returned json document (e.g., --select=projects)

Type: string

Tasks to run for affected projects

Type: string

Choices: [app, lib]

Select the type of projects to be returned (e.g., --type=app)

Type: boolean

Uncommitted changes

Type: boolean

Untracked changes

Type: boolean

Show version number