Nx considers any arbitrary project.json file as nx project file

[hasanayan]

Current Behavior

after migrating from nx 14.7.5 to to 15.3.3, I started getting this error;

that folder XXX/public/locales/de has project.json, but that project name stands for the project in our app domain. As far as I understood, Nx thinks there is an nx project in that folder and complains about that.

Expected Behavior

• Be able to tell nx to ignore folders from discovering them as nx libs
• Or, be able to completely turn off project.json discovery, because we are using workspace.json anyway

Github Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

1. add project.json anywhere in an nx lib and run nx workspace-lint

Nx Report

>  NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

   Node : 16.15.0
   OS   : darwin arm64
   yarn : 3.2.0
   
   nx : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/angular : Not Found
   @nrwl/cypress : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/detox : Not Found
   @nrwl/devkit : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/esbuild : Not Found
   @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/expo : Not Found
   @nrwl/express : Not Found
   @nrwl/jest : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/js : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/linter : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/nest : Not Found
   @nrwl/next : Not Found
   @nrwl/node : Not Found
   @nrwl/nx-cloud : Not Found
   @nrwl/nx-plugin : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/react : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/react-native : Not Found
   @nrwl/rollup : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/schematics : Not Found
   @nrwl/storybook : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/web : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/webpack : 15.3.3
   @nrwl/workspace : 15.3.3
   typescript : 4.8.4
   ---------------------------------------
   Local workspace plugins:
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:
         rxjs: 6.6.7
         @wanews/nx-vite: 0.10.1

Failure Logs

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Additional Information

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[hasanayan]

This probably can be solved with project inference plugins, but the example you gave in the docs is not clear.

How is that plugin created? is it enough to create libs/awesome-plugin/index.ts? Apparently not, that did not work for me. The other plugins I know are generators and executors, and project-inference doesn't seem to fit those

[AgentEnder]

Hey! This should probably be addresed, but in the meantime you can add that file to .nxignore to avoid it being picked up. One thing to note is that file will no longer be hashed when calculating cache hits if added there.

[hasanayan]

thanks, @AgentEnder, I worked around this issue by renaming my project.json ( which led to renaming whole bunch of other stuff but that's my problem : ) )

But, yeah, nx should offer a better way to tackle this.

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