# addNxApp

- Module: [CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.JavaScript.Extensions](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.javascript.extensions.md)
- Version: `13.4.0`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire)

Adds an Nx monorepo workspace to the distributed application builder.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addNxApp(
    name: string,
    workingDirectory?: string): NxResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)
- `workingDirectory` (`string`) `optional`

## Returns

[NxResource](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.javascript.extensions/nxresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.javascript.extensions/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)