Nx can't find any projects in our repository from the 15.0.11 release

Hello 👋

Current Behavior

We have a repository that uses Nx and our setup is set as follows:

/package-a
  package.json
/package-b
  package.json
/directory
package.json
nx.json

The root package.json does not have a workspace entry, we do not use npm workspace.

Since the release of 15.0.11, nx graph can’t find any projects.

The error message from the nx print-affected command:

NX   Nx could not find any projects. Check if you need to configure workspaces in package.json or pnpm-workspace.yaml

Expected Behavior

Before that release, Nx can find our projects: package-a and package-b.

According to the error message, it looks like we have to use workspace now but I didn’t find any documentation that push in that direction (but maybe I missed something).

Environment

nx report

 >  NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

   Node : 16.13.2
   OS   : darwin x64
   npm  : 8.1.2
   
   nx : 15.0.12
   @nrwl/angular : Not Found
   @nrwl/cypress : Not Found
   @nrwl/detox : Not Found
   @nrwl/devkit : 14.5.8
   @nrwl/esbuild : Not Found
   @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : Not Found
   @nrwl/expo : Not Found
   @nrwl/express : Not Found
   @nrwl/jest : 14.5.8
   @nrwl/js : Not Found
   @nrwl/linter : 14.5.8
   @nrwl/nest : Not Found
   @nrwl/next : Not Found
   @nrwl/node : Not Found
   @nrwl/nx-cloud : Not Found
   @nrwl/nx-plugin : Not Found
   @nrwl/react : Not Found
   @nrwl/react-native : Not Found
   @nrwl/rollup : Not Found
   @nrwl/schematics : Not Found
   @nrwl/storybook : Not Found
   @nrwl/web : Not Found
   @nrwl/webpack : Not Found
   @nrwl/workspace : 14.5.8
   typescript : 4.8.4
   ---------------------------------------
   Local workspace plugins:
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:

Thanks 🙏

[FrozenPandaz]

Yes, a new plugin is available: nx/plugins/package-json. You can add it by adding this to nx.json:

  "plugins": [
    "nx/plugins/package-json"
  ]

What this plugin does is that it will re-enable the behavior prior to 15.0.11 find all package.json files as projects even without npm/yarn workspaces. After adding that to your workspace, the projects that showed up before should show up. Let me know if you have any issues.

Sorry for the delay. This will be documented shortly.

[Will956]

Thanks @FrozenPandaz, works like a charm ❤️