Easy development environments with Nix and Nix flakes!

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fish shell

The default shell in the above flake adds Valkey, NodeJS 22, the PNPM package manager, and the fish shell to the environment. It also starts Valkey in the background through a shell hook, passing it a custom config (declared via Nix!) and runs fish so we're dropped in the fish shell instead of our login shell.

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devenv

If writing a devshell on your own seems more complicated than necessary, you can use tools like Devenv or Devbox (by the same team that built NixHub), which are both built on Nix. Devenv provides nice wrappers to automatically add languages, services (like postgres or redis), etc. On top of your flake, without having to do the shenanigans we had to do with Valkey. Devbox on the other hand, lets you skip writing Nix entirely, since they have their own CLI and lock file that pull packages from nixpkgs.

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