[FEATURE] Workspace Symbols

[moatorres]

Hello NX Community,

I've been wondering if anyone ever considered implementing some sort of nx "Workspace Symbols". I don't understand 100% how @nx/workspace:move identifies which files need to be updated, but I got myself thinking about strategies to extend the generator's behavior so it can detect and rename paths outside project.json and .ts files.

As an example, some projects have sh scripts and Dockerfile files that use paths and/or projects' names, and those are ignored when we move things around. My first thought was that that would entail some level of templating, but I've been thinking if I'd be able to implement either:

• A list of Symbols (unique strings) that can be used as identifiers (maybe some sort of local registry?)
• Global RegEx patterns based on workspace naming conventions
• A clever grep-like step that could traverse Tree object and extend the generator
• Custom executors and/or generators with "hardcoded" checks based on projects' tags or templates

Has anyone ever tried to implement something similar?

[moatorres]

I think that if we manage to identify full matches of a path, maybe we can update paths everywhere? As in grep "apps/someproject/src" or "{workspaceRoot}/myapp/src" 🤔