#2026 feat: nest build --all flag

[iliazeus]

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PR Type

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

[ ] Bugfix
[x] Feature
[ ] Code style update (formatting, local variables)
[ ] Refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)
[ ] Build related changes
[ ] CI related changes
[ ] Other... Please describe:

What is the current behavior?

Issue Number: #2026

What is the new behavior?

• added an --all flag to nest build to build all projects in a monorepo
• as a bonus: added an ability to specify several projects as nest build args (the --all flag was easier to implement this way :)

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

[ ] Yes
[x] No

Other information

[iliazeus]

The implementation has a bug and does not work right now. Can't find a way to put a PR back into draft mode.

[iliazeus]

The bug should now be fixed. Tested on my local projects, seems good.

[fdundjer]

Hi, is there any planned release date for this? We are looking for this functionality.

[jjunyjjuny]

Happy New Year everyone~

Is this work in progress? I am waiting for this feature to be released...

[micalevisk]

can we change this to be const appNames: string[] | undefined;

the undefined! looks hacky to me

[iliazeus]

I can change that, but it requires to also change a lot of other APIs that do accept undefined to mean "default app", but do not declare that.

I was reluctant to do it, since it's a lot of changes, but if it's okay I'll change those to string | undefined.

[iliazeus]

Fixed this spot and all the APIs it trickles down to in f574cfd.

Haven't looked at other places that accept an appName - they may also need to be changed to explicitly allow undefined, but that would be outside of this PR's scope.

[void-nick]

I'd like this feature too!!

[Ahmadh26]

any updates on this PR? :)

[fesoares]

please release this feature 🙏🏻

[jelical]

Any updates on this? When it about to be released?

[SergioSuarezDev]

super option! It is very good to be able to generate a single docker image with the entire project and then use it to init 2 or more services that share the same build

[ajfranzoia]

Waiting for this feature as well, I don't want to switch to Nx just because of this