reflex-platform VS nix

Compare reflex-platform vs nix and see what are their differences.

reflex-platform

A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager. (by reflex-frp)

nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager (by NixOS)
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reflex-platform nix
10 366
713 10,621
0.7% 7.1%
8.3 10.0
2 months ago 2 days ago
Nix C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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reflex-platform

Posts with mentions or reviews of reflex-platform. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-15.
  • The Haskell job market has been growing steaily since 2008
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2023
    We used reflex-frp, so our app was a webview that worked on localhost and Android. The docs say it also works on iOS but we don't have an iPhone.

    The process was learning Functional Reactive Programming, then learning reflex-frp, then getting a contract with obsidian (creators of reflex) for one hour a week where we could ask questions.

    ( https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform )

    We had a grant requirement to create a phone client for Tahoe-LAFS, a Python application with a bunch of dependencies, including ZFEC, a forward error correction library.

    ( https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/ )

    ( https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec/ )

    We needed bug for bug compatibility with the Python codebase, so I ran Tahoe on localhost and tested the Haskell client against the Python server. We used servant to build the API, since it builds both client and server side from the same description.

    ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant )

  • Resurrection/modernization of an old Haskell+Haste project (boardgame Yinsh)
    8 projects | /r/haskell | 8 Feb 2023
  • Exploring ideas in Haskell
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 14 Jan 2022
    The type classes do take a toll on performance, but in reflex-platform we change GHC's default flags to make the situation a lot better. It's still not ideal, but our performance winds up being OK for real applications. The most important part is that the performance scales reasonably well as the application grows. It might probably be good at some point to use backpack instead of a typeclass so that specialization can be enforced - though I'd prefer if GHC gave a way to just force specialization more effectively.
  • Any News On Haskell For Android ?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 Jan 2022
    Obelisk / reflex-platform contain nix-based solutions to building Haskell code for mobile, so you might be interested in checking out how they do it (or just using them).
  • Creating a Haskell Application Using Reflex. Part 1
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2021
    In this series of posts, we will describe how a Haskell web application can be developed using reflex-platform. reflex-platform offers reflex and reflex-dom packages. reflex package is the Haskell implementation of Functional reactive programming (FRP). reflex-dom library contains a large number of functions, classes, and types used when dealing with DOM. The packages are separated as it is possible to use the FRP approach not only for web-development. We will develop theTodo List application that allows carrying out various manipulations on the task list.
  • [JOBS] Obsidian Systems is Hiring
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 11 Mar 2021
    reflex-platform
  • Setting up Reflex with VS Code in WSL
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 8 Feb 2021
    To clarify the situation, the canonical way to develop reflex-dom projects is to start from the reflex-platform. See here: https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform/blob/develop/docs/project-development.rst
  • Nix - WSL - no C compiler provided for this platform
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Feb 2021
    This might also be coming from the tests of the library (even if they can run in the browser, their tests might not). You can disabled tests using an overrides attribute in project.nix (if using reflex-stone). You can see what it should look like here : https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform/blob/develop/project/default.nix#L79. You should add this attribute at the same level where "useWarp = true;" is. This should then have lines like "diagrams = pkgs.haskell.lib.dontCheck super.diagrams;" for example if you want to disable the tests for the diagrams package.

nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.
  • Go + Hypermedia - A Learning Journey (Part 1)
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
    1) Setting up the development environment - I currently use devcontainers for most things, but may also dig into nix -> isolated, portable, repeatable development environment 2) Exploring Echo - understand routing, requests, response, etc. 3) Incorporate Templ - integration with Echo, template composition, etc. 4) Integrating TailwindCSS - config for use with Echo/Templ, development cycle, deployment, etc. 5) Add in HTMX - endpoints, template structure, concepts, etc. 6) hyperscript for interactivity - client side interactivity
  • What it was like working for Gitlab
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    Semi-related, I would recommend to anyone who is a Linux native to try to find some kind of "minimum viable setup" that is really really easy for you to run out of VirtualBox or Parallels or something for this reason. No matter where you go, you know you can have a suite of tools which work just as you want them to there. Being able to tear it down and rebuild it quickly is also a great way to deal with debugging certain kinds of problems of the "it runs/doesn't run on my machine" category.

    How you do this is of course up to you. At one end of the spectrum is just relying on your memory. At the other end is using NixOS https://nixos.org/ to get fully reproducible builds anywhere you go. Between these are a vast field of options. I know a guy who maintains an Ansible file set to `host: localhost` which installs everything he wants from that file. For me, I just stick with the latest Ubuntu version and maintain a few shell scripts [1] that install 80% of what I like to have on a new install.

    If you like the scientific approach, you can install something like https://atuin.sh/ and do some statistics on what programs you actually run most frequently based on your long term shell history.

    [1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

  • Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    See https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/838 for making content-addressed derivations supported by hydra.nixos.org. At that point, we can actually try out the XP feature at scale.

    Also see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8919 for this accepted RFC

    Once those things are done, we can get back to merging in the IPFS code.

    Now that there is an Nix team and I am on it, there is much, much less of an issue of these experiments being caught in limbo :).

  • The one thing I do not like about the Nix package manager (and a fix for it)
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2024
    The nix package manager is an awesome package manager for linux and macos, which focuses on declarative packages. This means that you can dump out all the packages you want into a file, and nix will go out and fetch them for you.
  • NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
  • Beginners Intro to Trunk Based Development
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
    Secondly, our development environments must not drift, because then code may behave differently and a change could pass on our machine but fail in production. There are many tools for locking down environments, e.g nix, pkgx, asdf, containers, etc., and they all share the common goal of being able to lock down dependencies for an environment accurately and deterministically. And that needs to be enforced in our local workflow so we don't have to rely on CI environments for correctness. All developers must have environments that are effectively identical to what runs in CI (which itself should be representative of the production environment).
  • Practical Guide to Trunk Based Development
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
    There are many ways this can be done (e.g nix, pkgx, asdf, containers, etc.), and we won’t get into which specific tools to use, because we'll instead cover the essential essence of preventing environment drift:
  • How I use Nix in my Elm projects
    8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    Nix is a tool that allows you to make reproducible development environments. I've started using it in all my Elm side projects and I've had a good experience with it thus far. To pique your curiosity I just wanted to share my simple setup that has been working quite well for me.
  • Shopware Changes since the 6.0 Dev Training Videos
    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2023
    The latter one is based on nix OS using Symfony flex recipes and PHP packagist composer. The flex devenv should work cross-platform on Linux, Windows, and Mac. "The main difference to other tools like Docker or a VM is that it neither uses containerization nor virtualization techniques. Instead, the services run natively on your machine."

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reflex-platform and nix you can also consider the following projects:

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

obelisk - Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included.

guix - Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead

NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container

build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.

nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin

nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments