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I started using the Nix package manager in September 2022<\/a> as a replacement for Ansible to manage my dotfiles.<\/p>\n\n

Since then, I've switched to daily-driving NixOS as my main operating system and started to use Nix instead of Docker for some development projects.<\/p>\n\n

Even though I'm running Linux, there's a benefit to not running containers for simple projects as well as the reproducibility that Nix provides.<\/p>\n\n

I hadn't invested much time in using Nix as Docker replacement for Drupal projects, but this week, I've started to look at devenv<\/a> - a development tool based on Nix.<\/p>\n\n

As well as declaring and locking the package versions I need for each project, it also manages the services I need, such as PHP-FPM and MariaDB or MySQL.<\/p>\n\n

It also configures Git hooks, test scripts and custom processes, such as running Tailwind CSS.<\/p>\n\n

I've configured it for a few projects this week and it could be a potential Docker replacement for me.<\/p>\n\n

If you want to see an example, see this repo on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

I started using the Nix package manager in September 2022<\/a> as a replacement for Ansible to manage my dotfiles.<\/p>\n\n

Since then, I've switched to daily-driving NixOS as my main operating system and started to use Nix instead of Docker for some development projects.<\/p>\n\n

Even though I'm running Linux, there's a benefit to not running containers for simple projects as well as the reproducibility that Nix provides.<\/p>\n\n

I hadn't invested much time in using Nix as Docker replacement for Drupal projects, but this week, I've started to look at devenv<\/a> - a development tool based on Nix.<\/p>\n\n

As well as declaring and locking the package versions I need for each project, it also manages the services I need, such as PHP-FPM and MariaDB or MySQL.<\/p>\n\n

It also configures Git hooks, test scripts and custom processes, such as running Tailwind CSS.<\/p>\n\n

I've configured it for a few projects this week and it could be a potential Docker replacement for me.<\/p>\n\n

If you want to see an example, see this repo on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "d6d6e37268d4aebacb46e15def1075f8", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }