NestJS REPL support

[exsesx]

Description

NestJS has a simple interactive environment that takes single user inputs, executes them, and returns the result to the user.

The REPL feature lets you inspect your dependency graph and call methods on your providers (and controllers) directly from your terminal.

To make this work, one has to add a new @nx/webpack:webpack executor target (basically default build target, but with a different main option), which creates a lot of boilerplate code and requires keeping changes of build and repl targets in sync.

Implementing this feature "natively" would be great, or perhaps have a better workaround.

Motivation

NestJS REPL is a convenient and powerful tool; everybody should have it at their disposal.

Suggested Implementation

Idea: is there a way to modify build target options? We could've set the build target to build and changed main inside those options to reduce the boilerplate. I'd be okay with that solution.

Additional References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73843467/nestjs-repl-on-nx

[exsesx]

Nx is flexible, so I've posted a workaround to this problem, which seems elegant enough. You can check it out here https://stackoverflow.com/a/76616322/9753648. Especially for those who have the same problem.

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