NixOS Development Shells

Follow the directions below to use these with your system.

01. Add flake to Nix registry

nix.registry.devshells.to = {
  type = "github";
  owner = "j-pap";
  repo = "devshells";
};

02. Enable direnv

programs.direnv.enable = true;

03. Initialize your project

Replace template_name below with the name of one of the directories in this repository.

A. Use an existing directory

cd /path/to/project
nix flake init -t devshells#template_name

B. Create a new directory

nix flake new /path/to/project -t devshells#template_name

04. Permit direnv

Inside your freshly initialized directory, run the command below. This will create a flake.lock file, downloading all the packages specified, while also permitting direnv to load the development environment automatically every time the directory is entered.

direnv allow