NX how to pass arguments to target dependency

I have the project config set in the package.json as below:

"nx": { "targets": { "build": { "outputs": [ "{projectRoot}/dist" ] }, "build-site": { "dependsOn": [ "build" ], "outputs": [ "{projectRoot}/fractal/build" ] }, "bundlesize": { "dependsOn": [ "build" ] } } } 

I want to pass an argument to the build target it depends on.

nx run-many --target=build-site --all -- --foo=bar

This does not seem to get passed down to the build target. Is there any way to do this?

[EDIT]

I use npm scripts (in package.json) as targets and have target dependencies defined with Nx like below.

{ "name": "project-a", "scripts": { "build": "gulp build", "build-site": "gulp buildFractal" }, "nx": { "build-site": { "dependsOn": [ "build" ], } } } 

And then I run nx run-many --target=build-site --all. However, the issue is that I want to pass a flag to the dependent build target which does not appear to work when I do nx run-many --target=build-site --all -- --foo=bar

1 Answer

dependsOn can be configured with a object instead of the shorthand:

"dependsOn": [{"projects": "self", "target": "build", "params": "forward"}], 

Then the params will get forwarded- Ref: