Make Angular Development Better with NX

Farooq Mahmud
1 min readMar 11, 2020

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Browse to nrwl.io and you are greeted with a bold statement — develop like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Sounds good to me!

Click the NX logo at the top right of the toolbar to find more clues. Now click the Angular logo on the page and scroll down. Ah, this looks like tooling that helps Angular developers. But it is much more than that.

Marel uses NX with great success. We find the primary benefit of NX is that architecture is a first-class citizen and not an afterthought. Have you noticed each project team has “their” way of developing Angular applications? NX makes it super easy to adhere to tried and true development practices, application architecture, and tooling. When you have myriad applications like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft do having a uniform approach is crucial.

I give a gentle introduction to NX on my YouTube channel. After watching this series, delve deeper into NX by going to nrwl.io.

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Farooq Mahmud

I am a software engineer at Marel, an Icelandic company that makes machines for meat, fish, and poultry processing.