nix-direnv
A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10] (by nix-community)
flake-templates
A collection of barebone Nix shells for starting a project, provided as flake templates (by akirak)
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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 2023-07-02.
- 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
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Minimal approach for python devel environment with flake
Personally I use nix-direnv. No longer the need to run nix develop or nix-shell. By setting up a .envrc with either use nix or use flake it will automatically install all the packages from default/shell.nix or flake.nix
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Nix and envrc
Direnv is installed using the nix-direnv installation instructions under "Via configuration.nix in NixOS". I read some recommendations that envrc.el is a better alternative then direnv.el, and after some testing I have to agree. (envrc-global-mode) is enabled in my config. This works perfectly with a normal emacs instance.
flake-templates
Posts with mentions or reviews of flake-templates.
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How to transition from shell.nix to flake.nix?
I have created flake templates for flake.nix boilerplates, so you can try it out. pre-commit template is what I use in most cases.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-direnv and flake-templates you can also consider the following projects:
devshell - Per project developer environments
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
lorri - Your project's nix-env
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains
nonguix
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration