the-nix-way/dev-templates

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

Source code at GitHub https://github.com/the-nix-way/dev-templates

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Nix flake templates for easy dev environments

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

nix flake init --template "https://flakehub.com/f/the-nix-way/dev-templates/*#${ENV}"

Here’s an example (for the [rust]!(./rust) template):

# Initialize in the current project
nix flake init --template "https://flakehub.com/f/the-nix-way/dev-templates/*#rust"

# Create a new project
nix flake new --template "https://flakehub.com/f/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:

If you have [nix-direnv][nix-direnv] installed, you can initialize the environment by running direnv allow.
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
[Bun]	[`bun`]!(./bun/)
[C] / [C++]	[`c-cpp`]!(./c-cpp/)
[Clojure]	[`clojure`]!(./clojure/)
[Cue]	[`cue`]!(./cue/)
[Dhall]	[`dhall`]!(./dhall/)
[Elixir]	[`elixir`]!(./elixir/)
[Elm]	[`elm`]!(./elm/)
Empty (change at will)	[`empty`]!(./empty)
[Gleam]	[`gleam`]!(./gleam/)
[Go]	[`go`]!(./go/)
[Hashicorp] tools	[`hashi`]!(./hashi/)
[Haskell]	[`haskell`]!(./haskell/)
[Haxe]	[`haxe`]!(./haxe/)
[Java]	[`java`]!(./java/)
[Jupyter]	[`jupyter`]!(./jupyter/)
[Kotlin]	[`kotlin`]!(./kotlin/)
[LaTeX]	[`latex`]!(./latex/)
[Nickel]	[`nickel`]!(./nickel/)
[Nim]	[`nim`]!(./nim/)
[Nix]	[`nix`]!(./nix/)
[Node.js][node]	[`node`]!(./node/)
[OCaml]	[`ocaml`]!(./ocaml/)
[Odin]	[`odin`]!(./odin/)
[Open Policy Agent][opa]	[`opa`]!(./opa)
[PHP]	[`php`]!(./php/)
[PlatformIO]	[`platformio`]!(./platformio/)
[Protobuf]	[`protobuf`]!(./protobuf/)
[Pulumi]	[`pulumi`]!(./pulumi/)
[Purescript]	[`purescript`]!(./purescript/)
[Python]	[`python`]!(./python/)
[R]	[`r`]!(./r/)
[Ruby]	[`ruby`]!(./ruby/)
[Rust]	[`rust`]!(./rust/)
[Scala]	[`scala`]!(./scala/)
Shell	[`shell`]!(./shell/)
[SWI-prolog]	[`swi-prolog`]!(./swi-prolog/)
[Swift]	[`swift`]!(./swift)
[Typst]	[`typst`]!(./typst/)
[Vlang]	[`vlang`]!(./vlang/)
[Zig]	[`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.

[`bun`]!(./bun/)

[bun]

[`c-cpp`]!(./c-cpp/)

[clang-tools]
[cmake]
[codespell]
[conan]
[cppcheck]
[doxygen]
[gdb]
[gtest]
[lcov]
[vcpkg]
[vcpkg-tool]

[`clojure`]!(./clojure/)

[Clojure]
[Boot]
[Leiningen]

[`cue`]!(./cue/)

[Cue]

[`dhall`]!(./dhall)

[Dhall]
[dhall-bash]
[dhall-docs]
[dhall-json]
[dhall-lsp-server]
[dhall-nix]
[dhall-nixpkgs]
[dhall-openapi]
[dhall-toml]
[dhall-yaml]

[`elixir`]!(./elixir/)

[Elixir], including [mix] and [IEx]
[gigalixir] (Linux only)

[`elm`]!(./elm/)

[Elm]
[elm2nix]

[Empty]!(./empty/)

A dev template that’s fully customizable.

[`gleam`]!(./gleam/)

[Gleam]

[`go`]!(./go/)

[Go]
Standard Go tools ([goimports], [godoc], and others)
[golangci-lint]

[`hashi`]!(./hashi/)

[Packer]
[Terraform]
[Nomad]
[Vault]
[nomad-autoscaler]
[nomad-pack]
[levant]
[damon]
[Terragrunt]
[tflint]

[`haskell`]!(./haskell/)

[GHC][haskell]
[cabal]

[`haxe`]!(./haxe/)

[Haxe]

[`java`]!(./java/)

[Java]
[Maven]
[Gradle]
[jdtls]

[`jupyter`]!(./jupyter/)

[Jupyter core][jupyter]

[`kotlin`]!(./kotlin/)

[Kotlin]
[Gradle]

[`latex`]!(./latex/)

[texlive]
[tectonic]
[texlab]

[`lean4`]!(./lean4/)

[Lean]

[`nickel`]!(./nickel/)

[Nickel]

[`nim`]!(./nim)

[Nim]
[nimble]

[`nix`]!(./nix/)

[Cachix]
[dhall-to-nix]
[lorri]
[niv]
[nixfmt]
[statix]
[vulnix]

[`node`]!(./node/)

[Node.js][node]
[npm]
[pnpm]
[Yarn]
[node2nix]

[`ocaml`]!(./ocaml/)

[OCaml]
[Dune]
[odoc]
[ocamlformat]

[`odin`]!(./odin/)

[Odin]

[`opa`]!(./opa/)

[Open Policy Agent][opa]
[Conftest]

[`php`]!(./php/)

[PHP]
[Composer]

[`platformio`]!(./platformio/)

[PlatformIO]

[`protobuf`]!(./protobuf/)

The [Buf CLI][buf]
[protoc][protobuf]

[`pulumi`]!(./pulumi/)

[Pulumi]
[Python]
[Go]
[Node.js][node]
[dotnet]
[Java] and [Maven]
[jq]

[`purescript`]!(./purescript/)

[Purescript] (purs)
[Spago]
[purescript-language-server]
[purs-tidy]

[`python`]!(./python/)

[Python]
[pip]

[`r`]!(./r/)

[R]
[rmarkdown]
[knitr] ([pandoc] and [texlive])

[`ruby`]!(./ruby/)

[Ruby], plus the standard Ruby tools (bundle, gem, etc.)

[`rust`]!(./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 1.78.0 if neither is present
[rust-analyzer]
[cargo-edit]
[cargo-deny]

[`scala`]!(./scala/)

[Scala] (plus [Java])
[sbt]

[`shell`]!(./shell/)

[shellcheck]

[`swi-prolog`]!(./swi-prolog/)

[swipl][swi-prolog]

[`swift`]!(./swift/)

[Swift]
[sourcekit-lsp]

[`typst`]!(./typst/)

[Typst]

[`vlang`]!(./vlang/)

[Vlang]

[`zig`]!(./zig/)

[Zig]
[LLDB]
[ZLS]

the-nix-way/dev-templates

Nix flake templates for easy dev environments

How to use the templates

Available templates

Template contents

[bun]!(./bun/)

[c-cpp]!(./c-cpp/)

[clojure]!(./clojure/)

[cue]!(./cue/)

[dhall]!(./dhall)

[elixir]!(./elixir/)

[elm]!(./elm/)

[Empty]!(./empty/)

[gleam]!(./gleam/)

[go]!(./go/)

[hashi]!(./hashi/)

[haskell]!(./haskell/)

[haxe]!(./haxe/)

[java]!(./java/)

[jupyter]!(./jupyter/)

[kotlin]!(./kotlin/)

[latex]!(./latex/)

[lean4]!(./lean4/)

[nickel]!(./nickel/)

[nim]!(./nim)

[nix]!(./nix/)

[node]!(./node/)

[ocaml]!(./ocaml/)

[odin]!(./odin/)

[opa]!(./opa/)

[php]!(./php/)

[platformio]!(./platformio/)

[protobuf]!(./protobuf/)

[pulumi]!(./pulumi/)

[purescript]!(./purescript/)

[python]!(./python/)

[r]!(./r/)

[ruby]!(./ruby/)

[rust]!(./rust/)

[scala]!(./scala/)

[shell]!(./shell/)

[swi-prolog]!(./swi-prolog/)

[swift]!(./swift/)

[typst]!(./typst/)

[vlang]!(./vlang/)

[zig]!(./zig/)