nix-direnv
A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10] (by nix-community)
devshell
Per project developer environments (by numtide)
nix-direnv | devshell | |
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29 | 14 | |
2,012 | 1,306 | |
4.1% | 2.0% | |
7.9 | 6.9 | |
6 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
Shell | Nix | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-direnv
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-direnv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-20.
- Enlightenmentware
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Poetry2Nix Development Flake with Matplotlib GTK Support
You might want to checkout direnv and nix-direnv for added convenience.
- A faster, persistent implementation of direnv's use_Nix and use_flake
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How do multiple versions of the package internally work?
BTW: I personally use direnv with nix-direnv. This basically works by setting your shell with proper tooling when you enter the directory.
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I have a few beginner question, what is the difference between nix shell/env and what is the difference between flakes/home-manager?
I'm not sure what you mean by nix env, maybe you are referring to nix-direnv?
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Just a reminder to make sure Garbage Collection is running
Although currently I'm using direnv + nix-direnv. Keep in mind that direnv has builtin nix support which is very basic and doesn't do any caching. So you still needs this add-on to preserve roots.
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What do you install with configuration.nix and home manager
I distinguish between system level things and user level things, even though I don't really have different users on my machine. I install the bare minimum number of packages + a lot of different drivers in the configuration.nix, and desktop and editor related things in HM. For development environment, I have environment per project using mkShell and https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv, which allows you to switch to the specific environment once you cd into the directory. (Although I do have python installed globally with some commonly used packages such as numpy, so I can just start python and write something when I need to, without creating an environment)
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How do YOU use your PKMS?
I further make my software projects so that when I click a link I go into an environment pre-loaded with their dependencies so dropping in/out of projects is always frictionless. I do this with the reproducibility guarantees of nix, along with glue like nix-direnv and envrc-mode to direnv.
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Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix
(I also use nix-direnv)
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NixOS + Haskell best practices circa March 2023
direnv
devshell
Posts with mentions or reviews of devshell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
- Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
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Any tips for setting up a local development environment for wordpress?
numtide/devshell is cool little extension to bare devshells, you may wanna have it.
- Devshell – like virtualenv, but for all the languages
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Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
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
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Just, Nix Shell and Podman are a Killer Combo
devshell is pretty useful too :)
- Ask HN: What is your development workflow on the MacBook M1?
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
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.
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Annoncing Shix, tailored development shells made with Nix
How does it differ from https://github.com/numtide/devshell ?
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Nim packages stats
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
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Use remote package derivation file with nix-shell --packages option
Here's an example with devShell as a remote repository: sh nix-shell -p '(import (fetchGit "https://github.com/numtide/devshell") {}).cli'
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-direnv and devshell you can also consider the following projects:
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
lorri - Your project's nix-env
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration
nixos-nvidia-vgpu - NixOS NVIDIA vGPU Module
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
flake-template - My template for Nix flakes
flake-templates - A collection of basic Nix flake templates for adding a reproducible environment quickly
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]