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Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial - Tweag

A new Nix feature that improves reproducibility, composability and usability in the Nix ecosystem. This blog post describes why flakes were introduced, and ...

Introduction to Flakes | NixOS & Flakes Book

The flakes experimental feature is a major development for Nix, it introduces a policy for managing dependencies between Nix expressions, it ...

NixOS & Nix Flakes - A Guide for Beginners - Reddit

The only introduction to nix flakes I saw in the official documentation was about nix new cli, but what I wrote might not be appropriate to add ...

An unofficial NixOS & Flakes book for beginners - Guides

This is what a user-journey-focused introduction (through to quite advanced!) guide should look like. Truly great work and something I will recommend heartily.

Flakes - NixOS Wiki

A flake refers to a file-system tree whose root directory contains the Nix file specification called flake.nix . An installation may contain any number of ...

Nix flakes

Flake outputs are defined by a function, which takes an attribute set as input, containing each of the inputs to that flake (named after the chosen identifier ...

Nix Flakes: first steps - Jakub Kozłowski

Flakes are a feature of Nix meant to enable distribution of Nix packages in a decentralized and reproducible manner.

Flakes: what are the simplest, beginner friendly ones you have seen ...

I have adopted flakes and so they are a topic I teach when introducing colleagues to nix. I often begin writing simple flakes, ...

Nix Flakes: an Introduction - Xe Iaso

Nix flakes define a set of conventions for how software can be build, run, integrated and deployed without having to rely on external tools such as Niv or ...

Some notes on nix flakes - Julia Evans

flakes are self-contained · you can install and compile any software you want in them · you can use them as a dev environment (the flake sets up ...

Nix Flakes: an Introduction | Lobsters

I believe that the main innovation with flakes is that it doesn't just give you build instructions, but also it gives you a way to give out ...

Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes ...

Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way · Convenient pinning of evaluation-time dependencies ...

Ultimate Nix Flakes Guide - YouTube

... flakes wiki: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes Flake URL syntax examples: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake ...

NixOS & Nix Flakes - A Guide for Beginners - This Cute World

Since the article is so long now, for the convenience of readers, the content of this post has been moved to a separate site:.

flake-parts: Introduction

Core of a distributed framework for writing Nix Flakes. flake-parts provides the options that represent standard flake attributes and establishes a way of ...

NixOS Introduction - Nix Flakes - YouTube

Continue with the NixOS series, in this video I will show you how to use nix flakes in NixOS. Use Home manager as NixOS module or Standalone ...

Practical Nix Flakes - Serokell

Flakes are a new feature in the Nix ecosystem. Flakes replace stateful channels (which cause much confusion among novices) and introduce a ...

Nix flakes explained - YouTube

You said flake twenty-four (24) times, although technically thirteen (13) of the twenty-four (24) times was in the plural form as flakes. Nix, ...

Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition - Tony Finn

... introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes. ... introduced enough of a foundation it's time to explain flakes ...

Nix Flakes: An Introduction | Hacker News

At the moment, flakes is an evaluation-time thing (thus client-side) so no restart of nix-daemon is technically required. However, if you are ...