Awesome added it to the…
Awesome! added it to the production configuration for my node service and if I copy the dist folder to the project to another location i can run node app.js and it starts successfully.
"build": {
          "builder": "@nrwl/node:build",
          "options": {
            "outputPath": "dist/apps/example-express-nodeservice",
            "main": "apps/example-express-nodeservice/src/main.ts",
            "tsConfig": "apps/example-express-nodeservice/tsconfig.app.json",
            "assets": ["apps/example-express-nodeservice/src/assets"]
          },
          "configurations": {
            "production": {
              "optimization": true,
              "extractLicenses": true,
              "inspect": false,
              "fileReplacements": [
                {
                  "replace": "apps/example-express-nodeservice/src/environments/environment.ts",
                  "with": "apps/example-express-nodeservice/src/environments/environment.prod.ts"
                }
              ],
              "externalDependencies": "none"
            }
          }
        },