How an Unrelated App Broke Our Nx Deployment

Introduction Ever had a build pass perfectly on your local machine only to watch it crumble in the CI/CD pipeline? I recently hit a wall at work while deploying a web app from an Nx monorepo. The culprit was not even the code I was deploying. Instead, it was a configuration mismatch in a completely different mobile app within the same workspace. Wait, What is Nx and a Monorepo? Before we dive into the error, let’s talk about the setup. A monorepo is a single repository that houses multiple proje