nix profile devshells

Note

This flake is very opinionated and made for my personal use (maybe i'm just too dumb to use direnv)
Moreover i'm not very experienced with nix

These devshells are made so they can also be referenced by profiles making them:

• 🛡️ permanent - to garbage-collect without relying on nix-direnv
• 💾 offline - always ready to use and without unexpected downloads

Setup

Flake registry

Add the this flake to your system flake inputs

inputs.nix-profile-devshells.url = "github:Phothonx/nix-profile-devshells";
inputs.nix-profile-devshells.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

You can also change the the nixpkgs it follows

Add the input to the registry

nix.registry.dev.flake = inputs.nix-profile-devshells;

Use the template

Get the template

nix flake init -t github:Phothonx/nix-profile-devshells

Make sure the nixpkgs from the registry is the same as your system config

registry.nixpkgs.flake = inputs.nixpkgs;

(or else the nixpkgs input will be garbage-collected from the store 🍃)
You can also change the the nixpkgs registry to whichever you want from your inputs

Usage

you can reference the flake anywhere using his registry name if you used the registry setup

Install the devshell's packages in your profile if you want to preserve it
nix profile install .#devshell-name

Use it like a normal devshell
nix develop .#devshell-name