fontis/nix-node

The closest thing to nvm on Nix!

About

All releases of nodejs built and accessible under a single flake.

It's like nvm but for nix!

Setup

Setting up the registry

Via the CLI

nix registry add node 'github:fontis/nix-node'

In configuration.nix

nix.registry."node".to = {
  type = "github";
  owner = "fontis";
  repo = "nix-node";
};

Setting up the binary cache

Via the CLI

cachix use fontis

In configuration.nix

nix.binaryCaches = [ "https://cache.nixos.org/" "https://fontis.cachix.org/" ]

Usage

Using latest major releases

nix shell node#16

Using explicit release versions

nix shell node#16.3.0

Contributing

Open to contributions for supporting more versions, architectures, etc.

Adding new versions

Get the checksum for the new version.

version="1.0.0"
nix-prefetch-url --type sha256 "https://nodejs.org/dist/v$version/node-v$version.tar.xz"

Update flake.nix with new version and checksum.

Update CI build to build new version.