Nix flake templates for easy dev environments

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

nix flake init --template github:the-nix-way/dev-templates#${ENV}

Here's an example (for the rust template):

# Initialize in the current project
nix flake init --template github:the-nix-way/dev-templates#rust

# Create a new project
nix flake new --template github: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:

1. If you have nix-direnv installed, you can initialize the environment by running direnv allow.
2. 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
Dhall	dhall
Elixir	elixir
Gleam	gleam
Go 1.17	go1_17
Go 1.18	go1_18
Java	java
Kotlin	kotlin
Nix	nix
Node.js	node
Protobuf	protobuf
Rust	rust
Scala	scala
Zig	zig

Template contents

The sections below list what each template includes.

dhall

• Dhall
• dhall-bash
• dhall-csv (Linux only)
• dhall-docs
• dhall-haskell (Linux only)
• dhall-json
• dhall-lsp-server
• dhall-nix
• dhall-nixpkgs
• dhall-openapi
• dhall-text (Linux only)
• dhall-toml
• dhall-yaml