node2nix
Generate Nix expressions to build NPM packages (by svanderburg)
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My NUR packages (by akirak)
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| node2nix | nur-packages | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 486 | 0 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.3 | |
| 6 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Nix | 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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
node2nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of node2nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-26.
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The Magic Nix Cache
You may find something like node2nix helpful (https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix). This converts your package.json into a Nix expression that can then be cached. You're right that it does require some setup and a bit of Nix knowledge but could yield significant benefits and take a good chunk out of that 20 minutes.
Another option might be to use pnpm instead of Yarn and cache your pnpm dependencies. pnpm actually works a bit like Nix in that it creates a pnpm-lock.yaml file with content-based hashes for the full package.json dependency tree. This enables it to quickly determine which parts of the dependency tree it needs to build and which are already available.
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Override `nodePackages' with the `default.nix' from `node2nix' multiple times
I got it from this github issue in the node2nix repo.
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how to install Mozilla's readability library?
As Gerschtli commented, it may be possible to generate a Nix expression for @mozilla/readability using node2nix. Then get its node_modules path like this and set NODE_PATH to the value.
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How to install dependencies with Nix?
For node programs, you may be able to find the commands as just packages, or look at https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix for creating the nix equivalent of a node-modules
nur-packages
Posts with mentions or reviews of nur-packages.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.
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how to install Mozilla's readability library?
I once packaged that. If nixpkgs.nodePackages doesn't help, you can use node2nix like this: https://github.com/akirak/nur-packages/tree/master/pkgs/readability-cli
What are some alternatives?
When comparing node2nix and nur-packages you can also consider the following projects:
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
readability-cli
nix-npm-buildpackage - Build nix packages that use npm/yarn
at-node-nix - Node.js Nix expressions
hasql-interpolate
relocatable.nix - A nix bundler that produces relocatable deployment script for nix store paths.