Adding nx-go requires all users and containers of the repo to install go - is there a configuration option for this?

[creadicted]

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Hello!
we use the library to add a single go service the the nx monorepo. The issue is that only a couple of people work on this service and there is no need for all the devs install go. But everyone gets an error if they just want to start one of the apps through nx console. More important also to build some frontend applications we need to install go in the container. Is there a config or option I am missing to skip the requirement?

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[utarwyn]

Hello! Thank you for the feedback, sorry for the inconvenience.. 😢

This is something I hadn't anticipated when writing the library: currently, it systematically uses Go to generate the graph between projects, an operation that Nx performs at the start of each action.

We could imagine a mode in which the library doesn't crash if Go isn't present, but only ignores projects managed by nx-go.
Maybe it should be the default? something to think about. I'd love to hear any ideas!

[creadicted]

Hey! Thank you for the response. The plugin, depending on the circumstances, requires changes in many CI/CD steps. Our team was not aware of that (which is not the fault of the plugin), but this creates a lot of friction. The outcome changes depending on what the expectations are. If you focus on Go, you have it as a base dependency everywhere, including local development and CI/CD. The bigger the project and the more people working on it, the bigger the friction and chance that only a hand full of people work with go. I don't think it should be the default since I am the first that complains. But if a documented flag in the projects.json could do the trick, I would be very happy.

How does the plugin call the generate graph command? Maybe a conditional check returning a warning that Go is missing and therefore the graph generation is skipped would be possible instead.