nx repair generates diff due to incorrect formatting

[terrymun]

Current Behavior

When running nx repair on a repo, the nx.json file is updated in a way that is different from the format specified by .prettierrc. When running nx format:write after, the generated diff is gone.

This means that nx repair generates nx.json that is unstable.

Expected Behavior

The updated nx.json created by running nx repair should be properly formatted by prettier.

GitHub Repo

https://github.com/terrymun/nx-repair-prettier

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run nx repair
2. Notice that nx.json is updated: the diff is coming solely from formatting

3. Run nx format:write: notice that diff disappears

This suggests that the output of nx repair is not property formatted. I would expect the files generated by nx repair is already properly formatted, because we run nx format:check in our CI pipeline to ensure that PRs are properly formatted. A team member who just ran nx repair may commit the changes without knowing it is not correctly violated. Of course this can be fixed with a pre-push hook, but I would expect formatting to be part of the job done by nx repair.

Nx Report

Node   : 20.12.2
OS     : darwin-arm64
yarn   : 4.1.0

nx                 : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/js             : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/jest           : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/linter         : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/eslint         : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/workspace      : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/angular        : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/cypress        : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/devkit         : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/react          : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nrwl/tao          : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/web            : 19.0.0-beta.5
@nx/webpack        : 19.0.0-beta.5
typescript         : 5.4.3
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/cypress/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin
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Community plugins:
@ngrx/component-store : 17.0.1
@ngrx/effects         : 17.0.1
@ngrx/entity          : 17.0.1
@ngrx/router-store    : 17.0.1
@ngrx/store           : 17.0.1
@ngrx/store-devtools  : 17.0.1

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

4.1.0

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Additional Information

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