All Nx cli commands fail on 13.9

[manan-jadhav]

Current Behavior

All NX cli commands fail for me with no output, even --help.

Expected Behavior

Nx cli commands should work - at least --help should.

This started to happen since yesterday, giving me the hint that this might be a regression in 13.9

Steps to Reproduce

I already had a monorepo - so I ran this command according to docs:
npx add-nx-to-monorepo

I've done this multiple times, after switching to a clean branch and clearing node_modules, and running npm install.

When I pin the @nrwl/* versions to 13.8, it works fine.

Failure Logs

Nx commands return nothing except a non-zero return code. Stdout / stderr is completely empty, even for npx nx

Environment

Node : 14.17.5
OS : darwin x64
npm : 6.14.14

The following version gives me this error:

"@nrwl/cli": "latest",
"@nrwl/tao": "latest",
"@nrwl/workspace": "latest",

[LuckeeDev]

I'm having the same issue migrating from 13.8.8 to 13.9.0. The command nx migrate latest takes forever and doesn't output anything.

[andynunes]

@LuckeeDev See #9345, fixed in 13.9.1, which was just now released. You will want to restart your computer, as you are slowly being fork bombed.

[andynunes]

Although the actual issue you're reporting might not be fixed in 13.9.1, as I'm now getting:

Unexpected error:
Error: Cannot find module 'nx/src/cli/run-cli.js'

[FrozenPandaz]

Hi @manan-jadhav is it possible for you to point me to a repo somewhere after running npx add-nx-to-monorepo?

I am unable to reproduce this issue.

[jahumes]

I am wondering if this is related to #9346

[LuckeeDev]

@andynunes it worked, thanks a lot!

[manan-jadhav]

Update: After updating to 13.9.2, I now see the warning Please update your global Nx but after that the command exits and keep doing the same thing as before.

[manan-jadhav]

Update: I think I understand what happened:

• I added Nx to my monorepo when the latest version was 13.8.8 (using npx add-nx-to-monorepo)
• Next day, I ran npm install after merging in another dev's work that lead to package-lock.json getting updated, and my version getting updated to 13.9.x (I'm not sure if 13.9.0 or 13.9.1)
• At this point, require('nx/bin/nx') in my node_modules/.bin/nx started to fail silently because of @nrwl/cli being removed in 13.9.1. I don't know why it didn't throw a Module not found.
• I started seeing the warning message a few hours ago when 13.9.2 was released.

[manan-jadhav]

@FrozenPandaz Steps to reproduce:

1. Use npx add-nx-to-monorepo to add Nx to a monorepo
2. Nx cli commands won't work after this.

npx add-nx-to-monorepo does not add "nx": "latest" to my package.json, which is the root of the problem.

There is no point in sharing a repro repo because this is an issue with npx add-nx-to-monorepo and 13.9.0 together.

When 13.8.x was latest, add-nx-to-workspace worked fine.

I'm going to make an issue report on that project too.

[junzhengca]

Not sure if this helps. I recently ran the migration utility to migrate from nx 13.4.1 to latest, but for some reason, nx did not automatically update the version of @nrwl/cli.

Simply changing the @nrwl/cli version to match others fixed the issue.

[viceice]

Seeing the same when upgrading from 13.8.x.

repro

> npx create-nx-workspace@latest --preset angular --cli angular nx-v13
√ Application name                    · test-app
√ Default stylesheet format           · scss
√ Use Nx Cloud? (It's free and doesn't require registration.) · No
> cd .\nx-v13\
> npm run update
> npm install --legacy-peer-deps
> npx nx migrate --run-migrations

Checkout package.json before and after npx nx migrate --run-migrations and you see the issue.

[viceice]

Should @nrwl/cli removed from package.json or updated?

[manan-jadhav]

removing @nrwl/cli and replacing with nx worked for me

[shayll-herolo]

can confirm on 13.9.4, uninstalling @nrwl/cli and installing nx worked for me.
npm uninstall -D @nrwl/cli
npm install -D nx
I can run all nx commands now

[viceice]

the nx package was there after migration and @nrwl/tao was also removed. It seeems the migration code missed the @nrwl/cli

[JoA-MoS]

I can confirm that @nrwl/cli was not updated in the migration step and uninstalling @nrwl/cli and install nx solved the issue.

This is also the case for the global package. Could we update the error messging to indicate that you need to uninstall @nrwl/cli

Please update your global install of Nx
- npm install -g nx
> If you had previously installed the nx cli using the @nrwl/cli package uninstall this and install using the nx package
- npm uninstall -g @nrwl/cli
- npm install -g nx

[vltansky]

manual updated @nrwl/cli to version 13.9.4 solved it for me.
npm i @nrwl/cli@13.9.4 -D

[ThomasBurleson]

Definitely the migration scripts should account for this.

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[BensonBen]

recently bumped into this issue. I used @shayll-herolo 's solution which allowed me use cli commands locally.
I reverted to a previous version of my project using git reset --hard someCommitHash then using nx migrate latest tried to bypass bad versions. Whatever migrations wasn't working before still isn't working

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