napalm VS nixos-shell

Compare napalm vs nixos-shell and see what are their differences.

napalm

Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer @jtojnar] (by nix-community)

nixos-shell

Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell (by Mic92)
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napalm nixos-shell
2 6
101 564
0.0% -
6.1 6.1
4 months ago about 1 month ago
Nix Nix
MIT License MIT License
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napalm

Posts with mentions or reviews of napalm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-09.
  • niv, naersk, napalm: moving on
    7 projects | /r/NixOS | 9 Jul 2021
    I created https://github.com/nmattia/napalm/issues/34 and https://github.com/nmattia/naersk/issues/183 to move them to nix-community
  • NixOS 21.05 Released
    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021
    Sure. NPM is the easy case because the package-lock.json file can easily be read by Nix and contains hashes for all of the packages. This means that simply be importing the file into Nix you can have a reproducible build. No Nix-specific maintenance required.

    In the linked case I use this library to manage that https://github.com/nmattia/napalm (in that example I use master but for production I would pin a version). It simply parses the package-lock.json, downloads the packages and uses npm to build the node_modules folder. It also provides some convenient functions for building packages with "bin" files or just linking node_modules inside a build.

    Note that this is more for project development. It doesn't use the "system" packages (intentionally) for Node, it fetches whatever versions you have specified from NPM. Nix will only provide the "native" stuff like Node and NPM themselves and any native libraries.

nixos-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing napalm and nixos-shell you can also consider the following projects:

nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin

nix - A declaratively managed computing environment for rraval

nixos-fhs-compat - LSB&FHS compatibility for NixOS. Intended for containers and VMs.

naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.

nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.

poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework

NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]

nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!