Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix

• flox

  6 2,022 9.8 Rust

  Developer environments you can take with you (by flox)

  

Sorry you had a frustrating experience. It's definitely us missing the mark.

Re: fish, saw you found the issue someone else opened on it. We have it on our plan and will be adding support soon https://github.com/flox/flox/issues/1173

Re: your zsh experience, it's hard to judge exactly what's happening from your comment but we have had other users where the state of activation was suppressed by themes which can cause "environment already active". https://github.com/flox/flox/issues/637 - if you think it's something else or have more detail to share, let us know (either here, github, anywhere).

Thanks for trying Flox!

(Flox employee here)

• devenv

  88 3,410 9.8 Nix

  Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

  

> but worried that the development is not moving forward

There is an open v1.0 PR: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/1005

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• leptos

  54 14,658 9.8 Rust

  Build fast web applications with Rust.

  

https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos/blob/main/flake.nix

You want a package? Add it to buildInputs.

You want to search a package: https://search.nixos.org/packages (or use the cli)

you want to test a package before adding it? nix-shell -p or nix shell for example.

Heck, even if you want it more easy, you could write a tool in less than 100 lines that adds packages names to .json/.yaml/.toml, which allows you to parse it using the nix language and a simple cli written with bash functions to add/remove packages if you wanted.

That's why it is hard for me to understand this project as a product, it seems like a wrapper to the most basic things :\

• Bazel

  136 22,315 10.0 Java

  a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

  

Luckily a feature to limit the disk cache size is in development: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5139

• devshell

  14 1,095 7.9 Nix

  Per project developer environments

  

• devbox

  47 7,456 9.7 Go

  Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

  

How does Flox compare to Devbox? https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox

• process-compose

  14 940 9.3 Go

  Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.

Devbox can also run services too. Both products use an awesome process runner called process-compose (https://github.com/f1bonacc1/process-compose/) which is worth checking out (it's even built with nix!)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mise

  42 6,069 9.9 Rust

  dev tools, env vars, task runner

Not nix based, but I really like https://github.com/jdx/mise too to manage dev tools.

It’s a modern version of https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf written in Rust.

• asdf-nodejs

  27 851 5.6 Shell

  Node.js plugin for asdf version manager

  

Not nix based, but I really like https://github.com/jdx/mise too to manage dev tools.

It’s a modern version of https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf written in Rust.

• spec

  48 2,814 7.0

  Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment. (by devcontainers)

  

Happy to take this one, as I am one of the cofounder of Daytona.

Daytona solves all the automation and provisioning of the dev environment, actually wrote an article here laying out exactly what we do: https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/diy-guide-to-transform-any-m...

Daytona currently supports only the dev container (https://containers.dev/) "dev env infrastructure as code" standard, but are looking to support others such as devfile, nix and flox.

Hope this helps

• pkgx

  46 8,708 9.0 TypeScript

  the last thing you’ll install

  

I saw some alternatives being suggested and wanted to do the same (Also, so that I can look back at this item, through my comments :) ). Started using https://pkgx.sh/ lately. I know it has some baggage with tea.xyz and crypto, but it is also easy to get started with.

• std

  5 357 9.0 Nix

  A DevOps framework for the SDLC with the power of Nix and Flakes. Good for keeping deadlines!

  

Agreed on the experience, hard to onboard. I looked at devenv.sh as easier way to get going. Implemented all with Nix, less lock-in. Just found std [0] and that quote looks promising too.

[0] https://std.divnix.com/

• multiwoven

  16 617 9.9 Ruby

  🔥 Open Source Reverse ETL and Customer Data Platform (CDP). An open-source alternative to Hightouch, Census, and RudderStack.

  

Congrats on the launch, I am building an OSS Reverse ETL project called Multiwoven (https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven), built on top of many dev tools, frameworks etc. We manage to ship it using docker-compose to devs, wondering where does Flox fit in, can you help me understand with an use-case while docker exists?

• garn

  3 213 9.4 TypeScript

  garn is a build tool and environment manager that replaces justfiles/makefiles, docker, and the annoying parts of READMEs. The builders lingua franca.

  

• rfcs

  49 488 5.0

  The Nix community RFCs (by NixOS)

  

See: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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