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let nixpkgs = (fetchGit { name = "nixos-release-21.11"; url = "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/"; ref = "refs/tags/21.11"; rev = "506445d88e183bce80e47fc612c710eb592045ed"; }); getpkgs = import nixpkgs; pkgs = getpkgs {}; in pkgs.mkShell { buildInputs = [ pkgs.git pkgs.nodejs-14_x pkgs.yarn pkgs.ripgrep pkgs.cowsay ]; shellHook = '' cowsay "here is your shell environment" ''; }
A good starting point is the NixOS website. The site covers Nix and a tool and you do not need to set up NixOS to get started with it. It outlines some of the use cases for Nix, of which ad hoc environments are just one of them.