A home-manager template providing useful tools & settings for Nix-based development. Neovim pre-configured for Haskell Language Server is included as a key demonstration (try it with haskell-template.)
Either click the green "Use this template" button above (on Github) and clone it locally, or run the following:
mkdir ~/mynixconfig && cd ~/mynixconfig
nix flake init -t github:juspay/nix-dev-home(If you do not already have it, install Nix first)
This will create a flake.nix file and a home.nix in the current directory.
- Edit
home.nixto your liking (see configuration example). - Also, you must change the user name in
flake.nixfromjohnto your actual user name. - You can then run
nix runto activate this configuration in your $HOME.- After running this, restart your terminal. Expect to see the starship prompt. When you
cdinto a project containing.envrcconfigured for flakes (such as haskell-template), you should be automatically be put in thenix developshell along with a change to the starship prompt indicating the same.
- After running this, restart your terminal. Expect to see the starship prompt. When you
To browse the capabilities of home-manager (and to see what else can go in your home.nix -- such as shell aliases), consult https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html
- Running
nix run(home-manager) complains"Existing file ... is in the way of ..."- Delete those existing dotfiles, and try again. In home-manager, you can configure your shell directly in Nix (for macOS zsh, this is
programs.zsh.envExtra).
- Delete those existing dotfiles, and try again. In home-manager, you can configure your shell directly in Nix (for macOS zsh, this is
- Cannot use cachix: Running
nix run nixpkgs#cachix use nammayatri(for example) does not succeed.- Add yourself to the trusted-users list and restart your macOS machine.
mkdir -p ~/.config/nix echo "trusted-users = root $USER" > $HOME/.config/nix/nix.conf
- Add yourself to the trusted-users list and restart your macOS machine.
You can embed this configuration inside your NixOS configuration, and thus share it with non-NixOS systems (like macOS and Ubuntu). See the "both" template of https://github.com/srid/nixos-flake for an example. If you don't want to share the configuration with macOS (ie., you use only Linux for development), see the "linux" template instead.