nx-cdk - Running target "web-infra:diff" failed

[chasevida]

Hi there and thank you for this package, it looks really promising and hopefully fits my use case. I read through the docs and a bit of the source code to see if I could fix this myself but I'm not yet familiar enough with nx plugins.

I ran into a few issues using nrwl/nx version 13.1.2 with @otterdev/nx-cdk:0.0.14. After creating an app with nx g @otterdev/nx-cdk:app web-infra I then ran a few of the normal cdk commands using this plugin such as nx run web-infra:bootstrap and nx run web-infra:diff but I get the following errors.

$ nx run web-infra:bootstrap
Cannot find target 'boostrap' for project 'web-infra'

$ nx run web-infra:diff
--app is required either in command-line, in cdk.json or in ~/.cdk.json
Running target "web-infra:diff" failed

I've checked the cdk.json file and that looks fine (i.e. app: npx ts-node --prefer-ts-exts bin/web-infra.ts).

One other thing I did notice is that in the workplace.json settings under architect the outputs seem to include a dynamic string e.g. "outputs": ["{options.outputFile}"] but perhaps that's right. The last thing that may be important is that I'm using a name aws profile so I am assuming passing --profile name with the command is appropriate.

If there is something obvious I've missed and it's not too much I'd love to be pointed in the right direction. Much appreciated.

[chasevida]

Ok after diving further into this it seems to be that the command execution context is happening at the project root and as such it can't find the cdk.json. If I lift the ckd.json to the root and adjust both the app path and output then it appears to run. I'm not sure if this is happening for you but I will fork this and see if I can make a fix.