❄️ 💨 Snow Blower: All flake no fluff.

Have you ever wished you could pull down a repo, enter the shell, and have everything set up for you? ME TOO!

That's the purpose of Snow Blower. Setting up a project shouldn't be hard. Getting your team working in the same environment across the board shouldn't be hard either. Snow Blower makes it easy. Just add it to your flake.nix, pick the options you want to use, and enter the shell. All the other work is done for you!

Getting Started

Set up a new project with Nix flakes using our base template:

nix flake init --template github:use-the-fork/snow-blower

This template will create:

• A flake.nix file containing a basic development environment configuration.
• A .envrc file to optionally set up automatic shell activation.
• A justfile to import our dynamically created just files.

Open the Snow Blower shell with:

nix develop --impure

or, if you have direnv installed:

direnv allow

This will create a flake.lock file and open a new shell based on the configuration specified in flake.nix.

Now, go and modify your flake.nix file to suit your needs! We have included comments in the flake file to help you get started!

NOTE: "Why do I need --impure?"

When working with flakes, pure mode prevents Snow Blower from accessing and modifying its state data as well as accessing any files that may be ignored by git, such as .env files.

Motivation

I wanted to build a pure NixOS environment for developing web-based projects. Devenv is great, but it focuses on too many OSs. I wanted a pure flake implementation.

Contributing

TODO

Credit

• Thanks to Devenv for much of the inspiration for this project: https://devenv.sh/
• Thanks to NotAShelf for being a huge inspiration in learning nix: https://github.com/NotAShelf/nyx