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nixpacks
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187 | 2,144 | |
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6.8 | 8.7 | |
about 2 months ago | 3 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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
nixpacks
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9 ways to improve how you ship software
Example with Nixpacks:
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Multi-Worker Application on ARM Architecture
We have an upcoming nixpacks builder that should work on ARM/ARM64, but there are issues in the nixpacks codebase I'm still trying to sort out before that lands.
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Using Nix with Dockerfiles
I think this is something the writer of the article would be delighted to find: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
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[Media] Gitrun: Run any Git repository with one command
Yes, it builds the Dockerfile if it exists otherwise it uses nixpacks to create an image from source files for any language/framework. This image is then run using docker run .
- Show HN: IHP v1.0 (Batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix)
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We want to make Nix better
I think this is true for Nix in the deployment/ops space, where debugging a broken build can be very frustrating. Language improvements are going to be less useful for app developers, the Flake learning curve is not going to get better with a type system.
Perhaps something like heroku buildpaks (https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks ?) would help devs get on the Nix train.
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A selfhosted Heroku clone on your Kubernetes cluster
Hey! Any plans on integrating nixpacks? I'm one of the core maintainers & would love to help you out. No worries if not.
- Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image
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Deploying Strapi 4 to Railway
Uses NixPacks to build the images;
What are some alternatives?
nickel - Better configuration for less
sidekiq - Sidekiq worker on Render
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]
web3.storage - DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
cog - Containers for machine learning
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
heroku-deploy - A simple github action that dynamically deploys an app to heroku
nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
piku - The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
engine - The Orchestration Engine To Deliver Self-Service Infrastructure Faster ⚡️