I'm trying to run nx serve <project> and get: NX Cannot read properties of undefined

Current Behavior

Migration to v13. After that, when running “nx serve <project>” I got: NX Cannot read properties of undefined ('reading endsWith')

Also: NX As of Nx 13, project configuration should be moved from nx.json to workspace.json/project.json. Please run "nx format" to fix this.

Running “nx format”:

      NX   Affected criteria defaulted to --base=main --head=HEAD
      NX   Nx Daemon was not able to compute the project graph.
         Log file with the error: /Users/Arturo/aclprojects/acl-customers/node_modules/.cache/nx/d/daemon-error.log
         Please file an issue at https://github.com/nrwl/nx
         Nx Daemon is going to be disabled until you run "nx reset".
      
      NX As of Nx 13, project configuration should be moved from nx.json to workspace.json/project.json. Please run "nx format" to fix this.
      NX   Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'endsWith')`

Expected Behavior

My service running

Steps to Reproduce

nx serve <project> after migration to v13. nx format

Failure Logs

daemon-error.log daemon.log

Environment

      NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template
  
      Node : 16.13.1
      OS   : darwin x64
      yarn : 1.22.15
     
      nx : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/angular : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/cli : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/cypress : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/detox : undefined
     @nrwl/devkit : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/express : undefined
     @nrwl/jest : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/js : undefined
     @nrwl/linter : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/nest : undefined
     @nrwl/next : undefined
     @nrwl/node : undefined
     @nrwl/nx-cloud : undefined
     @nrwl/react : undefined
     @nrwl/react-native : undefined
     @nrwl/schematics : undefined
     @nrwl/storybook : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/tao : 13.8.1
     @nrwl/web : undefined
     @nrwl/workspace : 13.8.1
     typescript : 4.5.5
     rxjs : 7.5.4
     ---------------------------------------
     Community plugins:
 @angular/animations: 13.2.2
 @angular/cdk: 13.2.2
 @angular/common: 13.2.2
 @angular/compiler: 13.2.2
 @angular/core: 13.2.2
 @angular/forms: 13.2.2
 @angular/material: 13.2.2
 @angular/platform-browser: 13.2.2
 @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 13.2.2
 @angular/router: 13.2.2
 angular-datatables: 13.0.1
 ngx-spinner: 13.1.1
 @angular-devkit/build-angular: 13.2.3
 @angular/cli: 13.2.3
 @angular/compiler-cli: 13.2.2
 @angular/language-service: 13.2.2

      (node:18220) [DEP0148] DeprecationWarning: Use of deprecated folder mapping "./" in the "exports" field module resolution of the package at /Users/Arturo/aclprojects/acl-customers/node_modules/tslib/package.json.
      Update this package.json to use a subpath pattern like "./*".
      (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)`

[ivaylozhekov]

Hi @alo,

I hit the same issue migrating from angular & @nrwl v12 to v13. I debugged a little bit and found out that in nx.json, the ‘root’ property for each projects object should be present /as @leosvelperez suggested/

nx.json:

...
"projects": {
        "your-lib-name-1": {
            "tags": [],
            "root": "<the root of the lib>" <<<--- same root listed for the lib in angular.json
        },
        ...
}
...

after this, you may need to run the nx format command I hope this helps. At least it solved my issue.

[leosvelperez]

Thanks for reporting this!

I had a look at the stack traces shared by @amakhrov here and the one in the daemon.log file shared by @aclarturocastro. Checking the source code, it looks like you might have a project in your configuration with no value specified for the root property. That property is required and therefore, it would cause issues when it’s not present.

Please make sure that all projects always have a root property set in the configuration.

I’ll close this issue since it seems to be caused by an invalid configuration and in some cases seem to be because the migrations were not run. Please feel free to reopen this if the above doesn’t fix the issue.