vx on real repos

The benchmark on vx vs Nx is a synthetic graph built to be fair to every tool. This page is the other half: real public repos, moved to vx with one command and timed against the tool they already use.

TanStack/query, against Nx

TanStack/query at commit 817bd02, the build tasks without examples and integrations: 25 tasks for each tool.

Case	vx	Nx	vx is
Cold build	34.6 s	39.4 s	14% faster
Restore from cache	0.39 s	1.26 s	3.2× faster
Nothing changed	0.22 s	1.43 s	6.5× faster

“N% faster” means Nx takes N% longer. Restore deletes the build outputs and keeps the cache; “nothing changed” deletes nothing.

Run 2026-10-09 on linux x64, 4 cores: vx 0.0.633 configured by vx init --native, Nx 23.2.1 with the daemon off and no Nx Cloud, pnpm 12.4.2. 5 workers each, best of three interleaved runs. Every run is in the benchmarks.

Try it on yours

npm install -D @vzn/vx
npx vx init --keep

--keep writes one file, vx.workspace.ts, which reads your turbo.json or Nx graph as it is: nothing in the repo changes. Run vx run build --all next to the tool you use today. To undo, delete vx.workspace.ts. When you want native config, vx init --native writes a vx.config.ts per package; Migrate walks through it.

More repos join this page as they are measured, each with its commit, versions and machine.