devshell VS flake-template

numtide/devshell is cool little extension to bare devshells, you may wanna have it.

There is also devshell[1] which allows you to configure specific commands for your `env` and sits inside your flake.

[1]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell

devshell is pretty useful too :)

I'm new to the Nix world, but so far I've come across Divnix's Digga, Numtide's DevShell, and Misterio77's nix-starter-configs.

How does it differ from https://github.com/numtide/devshell ?

But take a look at devshell is like the NixOS/HomeManager of your (any language) project. I over abused it to create YAML files and to use Nim as script

Here's an example with devShell as a remote repository: sh nix-shell -p '(import (fetchGit "https://github.com/numtide/devshell") {}).cli'

{ nixpkgs ? import {} }: { flk = nixpkgs.callPackage nix/package.nix {}; } which lets the outside world treat it as (import (fetchGit "blablah") {}).flk. Alternatively, the more recent convention is to simply be a Nix Flake, although that's still in beta. The way I would do it is reflected in my template, (minus the devshell bits) but it's not authoritative. Feel free to do it the old fashioned way too.