To Solve Error: Unknown argument skipImport. Did you mean skip-import If You are facing above error then your nestjs/cli version should be 8.2.7 and That version has some Bug so You can Either Upgrade nestjs/cli or You Can Downgrade nestjs/cli. First Of all Uninstall nestjs/cli. Just run this command: npm uninstall -g @nestjs/cli Then Downgrade nestjs/cli to 8.2.6 by running this command in your terminal: npm install -g nestjs/cli@8.2.6 And now, Your error will be solved. Thank You.