Nix is a superbly well designed and powerful cross-platform package manager. But it's also got a very steep learning curve. Even for experienced programmers it can be daunting to use. Nixster is a thin, sugary wrapper around Nix to make it sweeter to use 🍭!
⚠️ In early development! Contributions welcome! ❤️
Currently you will need to install via this repo (not yet published to NPM and no binary yet available):
git clone git@github.com:stencila/nixster.git
cd nixster
npm installYou will also need to have Nix installed:
curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | shInstead of installing Nix and Nixster you can use the stencila/nixster Docker image:
make docker docker-interact