nix-dev-home

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.)

Usage

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.nix to your liking (see configuration example).
• Also, you must change the user name in flake.nix from john to your actual user name.
• You can then run nix run to activate this configuration in your $HOME.
  • After running this, restart your terminal. Expect to see the starship prompt. When you cd into a project containing .envrc configured for flakes (such as haskell-template), you should be automatically be put in the nix develop shell along with a change to the starship prompt indicating the same.

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

Troubleshooting

• Runningnix 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).
• 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

FAQ

But I use NixOS

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.