---
title: 'daemon - CLI command'
description: 'Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process'
---

# daemon

Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process

## Usage

```bash
nx daemon
```

Install `nx` globally to invoke the command directly using `nx`, or use `npx nx`, `yarn nx`, or `pnpm nx`.

## Options

### help

Type: boolean

Show help

### start

Type: boolean

Default: false

### stop

Type: boolean

Default: false

### version

Type: boolean

Show version number




Prints information about the Nx Daemon process or starts a daemon process