Developing
Now that you’ve got NixDots set up and ready to roll, it’s time to start learning how to develop it so you can change things to your liking or even better, if you desire to contribute to this project.
The flake sets a formatter and creates a default devshell that you can use to create a nice and
simple development environment very easily. Just run nix develop to enter the development shell.
The Devshell
Section titled “The Devshell”The devshell described in the flake installs a bunch of packages that will come in handy for working on NixDots.
- NixNvim - My custom Neovim configuration for NixOS using nixCats. I’m highly biased towards Neovim and absolutely adore it. It’s a pretty decent config for working on this project cozily.
- Git - The world’s most popular version control system. This needs no introduction. You absolutely need this because then you can easily revert code whenever among other things.
- Deadnix - Scans Nix files for dead/unused code. Run
deadnixin the base directory of NixDots to find them. - Statix - Provides linting and suggestions for Nix. This
ensures that good Nix practices are being followed throughout the codebase. Run
statix checkin the base directory of NixDots to analyze all the Nix files and provide linting and suggestions.
Formatting
Section titled “Formatting”As you can see in the flake, we’re using the Alejandra
formatter for this project. Just run nix fmt . in the base directory of NixDots to format all
the Nix files.
It should finish formatting in little to no time at all. Now you can write Nix code the way you like and then easily format it to a very popular and general code format with this simple command. Please format your code so all Nix files can maintain the same code style to ensure readability and such.