4.flake-parts/examples/shell-environments

shell-environment

Warning

If you copy the flake.nix remember to git add [-N|--intent-to-add] flake.nix, otherwise it won't work

This example shows how to create a shell environment which includes a diverse set of tools:

terraform
wget
bat
git

You can search for more package in nix packages

Usage

The devShells option is used by the following command:

nix develop

You can have as many shells as you want, in this flake.nix, you also have another_env which includes curl. To open it:

nix develop .#another_env

Troubleshooting

My shell has changed

There 2 possible solutions:

First, using direnv to manage your dev environments. See direnv-guide. This is the recommended approach.

Second is a simple-unreliable hack, which is adding a shellHook to devShells

devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
    shellHook = ''
    exec $SHELL
    '';
};

You might get a lot different issues, use it at your own risk.