direnv-nix-lorelei
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direnv-nix-lorelei
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About using Nix in my development workflow
I've _tried_ going down this route a couple times, with mixed success. Thus far the best experience has been with [lorelei](https://github.com/shajra/direnv-nix-lorelei), which does a decent job making Nix and Direnv play nice and being relatively transparent and forgettable once set up.
Still feels like I don't know what's going on under Nix's hood, though. That syntax...
NixOS-WSL
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NixOS for the Impatient
I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.
- NixOS VM on windows machine
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Easy and reproducible WSL distributions, with home-manager and Alpine linux
This project began as I didn't like that NixOS-WSL used systemd in the background, so I made this for myself. Some of the advantages: faster boot time, smaller image size and a FHS distro in the background, that lets you load dynamically linked binaries (for example, to have VSCode remote working OOTB).
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About using Nix in my development workflow
There's a community port of NixOS to WSL2, complete with systemd support, plus Docker Desktop support and some other goodies: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
Nix also works on other WSL distros, provided they're using WSL2.
Nix supports cross-compiling Windows binaries as well. I know some people use it for that.
There is no 'native' support— you can't use Nix as an alternative to Winget or Chocolatey on Windows. Right now a lot of important stuff in Nixpkgs depends on a POSIX shell and Unix coreutils implementation for the basic build environment, and that's shared between many operating systems. Trying to fit Windows into that doesn't really make s sense, and there's not really any momentum behind the idea of using any particular other runtime environment (could be a scripting language instead of a shell + coreutils) for those basic builders.
But it's conceivable that some day, one or more companies using Nix on WSL might see vaiue in taking that extra step and put together a Nix-based package collection for Windows and help get the Nix Windows port out the door.
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Build a temporary package to get started, iron out deps and learn how things work...
Basically, I managed to get NixOS inside WSL2 by using this: https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL
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does nixos-wsl work in vscode with the wsl extension:
But whenever I try running code . with nixos-wsl(https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL), the error: `code: command not found` is thrown, also, whenever I try to open nixos-wsl from vscode, it does not work and the terminal throws a bunch of errors?
What are some alternatives?
bitte - Nix Ops for Terraform, Consul, Vault, Nomad
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix-cue - Validate and generate configuration files using Nix and Cue
dotfiles - :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
nixos-vscode-server - Visual Studio Code Server support in NixOS
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
nix
dotfiles - There is no place like ~/
home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]