/dev-templates

Dev environments for numerous languages based on Nix flakes [maintainer=@lucperkins]

Primary LanguageNix

Nix flake templates for easy dev environments

built with nix

To initialize (where ${ENV} is listed in the table below):

nix flake init --template github:the-nix-way/dev-templates#${ENV}

Here's an example (for the rust template):

# Initialize in the current project
nix flake init --template github:the-nix-way/dev-templates#rust

# Create a new project
nix flake new --template github:the-nix-way/dev-templates#rust ${NEW_PROJECT_DIRECTORY}

How to use the templates

Once your preferred template has been initialized, you can use the provided shell in two ways:

  1. If you have nix-direnv installed, you can initialize the environment by running direnv allow.
  2. If you don't have nix-direnv installed, you can run nix develop to open up the Nix-defined shell.

Available templates

Language/framework/tool Template
C/C++ c-cpp
Clojure clojure
C# csharp
Cue cue
Dhall dhall
Elixir elixir
Elm elm
Empty (change at will) empty
Gleam gleam
Go go
Hashicorp tools hashi
Haxe haxe
Java java
Kotlin kotlin
LaTeX latex
Nickel nickel
Nim nim
Nix nix
Node.js node
OCaml ocaml
Open Policy Agent opa
PHP php
Protobuf protobuf
Pulumi pulumi
Purescript purescript
Ruby ruby
Rust rust
Scala scala
[Shell] shell
Vlang vlang
Zig zig

Template contents

The sections below list what each template includes. In all cases, you're free to add and remove packages as you see fit; the templates are just boilerplate.

c-cpp

clojure

csharp

cue

dhall

elixir

elm

Empty

A dev template that's fully customizable.

gleam

go

hashi

haskell

haxe

java

kotlin

latex

nickel

nim

nix

node

ocaml

opa

php

protobuf

pulumi

purescript

python

ruby

  • Ruby 3.2.2, plus the standard Ruby tools (bundle, gem, etc.)

rust

  • Rust, including cargo, Clippy, and the other standard tools. The Rust version is determined as follows, in order:

    • From the rust-toolchain.toml file if present
    • From the rust-toolchain file if present
    • Version 1.70.0 if neither is present

  • rust-analyzer 2023-07-10

  • cargo-audit 0.17.0

  • cargo-deny 0.12.1

scala

shell

Vlang

zig

Code organization

All of the templates have only the root flake as a flake input. That root flake provides a common revision of Nixpkgs and flake-utils to all the templates.