@nx/devkit runExecutor doesn't properly run if task depends on another task

[mpsanchis]

Current Behavior

If:

context: ExecutorContext
const targetDescription = { project: 'my-module', target: 'my-target' }

When running

await runExecutor(targetDescription, {}, context)

Then the equivalent of nx run my-module:my-target is run, but does not take into consideration target dependencies. It ignores dependsOn (at least for the cases I have tried).

For instance, if my-module has the following targets in the project.json:

"build": {
  "executor": "nx:noop",
  "dependsOn": "build-webpack"
},
"build-webpack": {
 "executor": "@nx/webpack:webpack"
 "options": { ... }
}

then the module is not built. However, if it has directly:

"build": {
 "executor": "@nx/webpack:webpack"
 "options": { ... }
 }

then it is built correctly.

Expected Behavior

If running await runExecutor(targetDescription, {}, context) and the target dependsOn some other target, then that target should run as well.
I expect the devkit to work equivalently to running the NX CLI.

GitHub Repo

https://github.com/mpsanchis/nx-devkit-runExecutor-bug

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run npx nx run cart:build-me. Verify that the dist/ folder is empty
2. Change the apps/cart/project.json: remove the build target and rename build-webpack to build.
3. Run npx nx run cart:build-me. Verify that the dist/ folder is not empty

Note that I added a simple library in the repo, called nx-builder-lib, which basically has one executor (buildme) which delegates to the build target of the module. This was inspired by the source code of ngx-deploy-npm, where Diego runs the build target before deploying the NPM package here.

Nx Report

Node   : 20.3.1
   OS     : darwin-arm64
   yarn   : 1.22.19
   
   nx                 : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/js             : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/jest           : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/linter         : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/workspace      : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/angular        : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/cypress        : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/devkit         : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/eslint-plugin  : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/react          : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nrwl/tao          : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/web            : 16.10.0-beta.2
   @nx/webpack        : 16.10.0-beta.2
   nx-cloud           : 16.4.0
   typescript         : 5.1.3
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:
   @ngrx/component-store : 16.0.0
   @ngrx/effects         : 16.0.0
   @ngrx/entity          : 16.0.0
   @ngrx/router-store    : 16.0.0
   @ngrx/store           : 16.0.0
   @ngrx/store-devtools  : 16.0.0
   ---------------------------------------
   Local workspace plugins:
         @mpsanchis/nx-builder-lib

Failure Logs

None. Runs without warning the end user that the target was not run.

Package Manager Version

any

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

No response

[AgentEnder]

This is expected behavior, runExecutor runs a specific executor. It doesn't spawn the task orchestrator or any of that, so dependencies are not ran and caching is not considered.

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