How to transition from shell.nix to flake.nix?

• flake-utils

  8 1,012 5.8 Nix

  Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

  

You can easily transition your shell.nix (and default.nix) to a flake-based one by using flake-utils and flake-compat. The former is actually unnecessary, but I would recommend it for typical project environments. Unless you have an impure dependency, this transition would be easy.

• nix-direnv

  27 1,460 9.0 Nix

  A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

  

If you are using nix-direnv (which I recommend), you can get rid of shell.nix by replacing use nix with use flake in your .envrc.

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• flake-templates

  1 65 8.5 Nix

  A collection of barebone Nix shells for starting a project, provided as flake templates

I have created flake templates for flake.nix boilerplates, so you can try it out. pre-commit template is what I use in most cases.

• nix

  372 10,879 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

There is a helpful discussion at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4609 that provides some more context for why this remains so confusing.

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