nix-doc
bob
nix-doc | bob | |
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3 | 33 | |
187 | 432 | |
- | 0.9% | |
6.8 | 4.5 | |
about 2 months ago | 13 days ago | |
Rust | Go | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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nix-doc
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We want to make Nix better
I love nix, I've been using it for the last 2 years, I have a very stable setup from these 2 years of effort [0], and I just can't recommend Nix for Linux beginners, why?
It's not because of the nix language, It's not because of the CLI, it's because everything is scattered, you have to consult many places to find out how to do things with Nix, here is an example:
Usually, when I need a new complex program, like Steam, I first check the system-wide configuration [1], the wiki [2] and the package list [3], if I just want it on my user, I need to check if Home Manager has an option [4], if it doesn't, I can try using the "home.packages" option. Now, if I need to override something on the package, I need to remember how to do it with [5] [6] (while checking the source code for the package in parallel to find the options).
And then sometimes, on very rare occasions, I need to fine tune something with the nix language, so I need to check the builtins/lib docs [7], but some builtins are not there, so I need to either use nix-doc [8] or find the docs inside the code-bases [9] [10] (they are split between both repos)
For me, this is one of the main pain points of using Nix / NixOS that needs to be solved.
[0] - https://github.com/shiryel/nixos-dotfiles
[1] - https://search.nixos.org/options
[2] - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Steam
[3] - https://search.nixos.org/packages
[4] - https://mipmip.github.io/home-manager-option-search/
[5] - https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-customising-packa...
[6] - https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nixpkgs-overriding-packag...
[7] - https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html
[8] - https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc
[9] - https://github.com/NixOS/nix
[10] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
- Our Roadmap for Nix
- nix-doc v0.5 released, adding ctags generation for Nix scripts
bob
- Bob 0.8.0: Keeping Hot Reloading for React, Vuejs or Svelte Functional
- Blob
- FLiP Stack Weekly for 06 February 2023
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Managing multiple Go versions in the local environment
I use https://bob.build to switch between go versions in my build graph. It's like... ... build: cmd: go build dependencies: [go_1_18]
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Is My Package Reproducible Yet?
Using Nix[0] should solve the reproducibility of a package. We use its package manager for bob[1] to achieve reproducible builds for projects.
[0] https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.html
[1] https://bob.build/
- Show HN: Reproducible builds using Nix-shell with bob
- Bob 0.6.3 released - An opinionated Bazel competitor which keeps IDE integration and hot-reloading functional by writing build outputs directly to the scope of a monorepo.
What are some alternatives?
nickel - Better configuration for less
devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]
Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
envd - 🏕️ Reproducible development environment
resholve - a shell resolver? :) (find and resolve shell script dependencies)