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I was recently explaining and demonstrating Nix and direnv to a colleague and showing how, when I moved into a directory, new packages or different versions of packages became available.<\/p>\n\n

If I left the directory, I was reverted back to my global packages and versions.<\/p>\n\n

In this demonstration, I was showing how I can have different versions of PHP and node for a particular project - replacing a lot of what I'd previously used tools like Vagrant and Docker for.<\/p>\n\n

I came up with a comparison between Nix and nvm - the node version manager - a tool that allows you to install multiple versions of nodejs and switch between them.<\/p>\n\n

Using Nix and direnv is more seamless, but it works for everything.<\/p>\n\n

I'm able to switch versions of PHP, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or anything else I need with Nix.<\/p>\n\n

Not just node, and without needing containers.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

I was recently explaining and demonstrating Nix and direnv to a colleague and showing how, when I moved into a directory, new packages or different versions of packages became available.<\/p>\n\n

If I left the directory, I was reverted back to my global packages and versions.<\/p>\n\n

In this demonstration, I was showing how I can have different versions of PHP and node for a particular project - replacing a lot of what I'd previously used tools like Vagrant and Docker for.<\/p>\n\n

I came up with a comparison between Nix and nvm - the node version manager - a tool that allows you to install multiple versions of nodejs and switch between them.<\/p>\n\n

Using Nix and direnv is more seamless, but it works for everything.<\/p>\n\n

I'm able to switch versions of PHP, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or anything else I need with Nix.<\/p>\n\n

Not just node, and without needing containers.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }