Lately, I’ve been getting simply the error in the title when running targets eg. build, test, graph, lint etc. whenever something breaks in the config files or folder/file setup in my NX monorepo workspace.

The See above for errors is misleading since there are no meaningful details posted in the trace.

example –

I created a new nx library and updated config files and now I can’t run any targets in my workspace. If I do run a target, I get this error –

user@user my-repo % npx nx test my-lib

NX Failed to create dependencies. See above for errors

Pass –verbose to see the stacktrace.

When I run the target with --verbose, I get the following –

user@user my-repo % npx nx test my-lib –verbose

NX Failed to create dependencies. See above for errors

CreateDependenciesError: Failed to create dependencies. See above for errors
at buildProjectGraphUsingContext (/Users/user/frontend/my-repo/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph/build-project-graph.js:138:15)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at buildProjectGraphUsingProjectFileMap (/Users/user/frontend/my-repo/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph/build-project-graph.js:68:24)
at createAndSerializeProjectGraph (/Users/user/frontend/my-repo/node_modules/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.js:229:55)
at processFilesAndCreateAndSerializeProjectGraph (/Users/user/frontend/my-repo/node_modules/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.js:160:19)
at Timeout._onTimeout (/Users/user/frontend/my-repo/node_modules/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.js:84:13)

As you can see there are no details posted above the NX error line and the stack trace doesn’t have anything specific any file that I would have touched during the buildProjectGraphUsingContext call in the info.