devenv Reviews and Details

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• Where .env Went Wrong

  While there are absolutely a million of these env tools popping up which are absolutely vibe-coded slop, secretspec is not one of them. It's from the creator of https://devenv.sh and has been around for a while. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust

  Probably not relevant to you, since it is yet another tool for managing your development environment, but maybe have a look at devenv (https://devenv.sh). it's main purpose is managing the development environment, but it has integration for pre-commit (or pmeven prek iirc) that let's pre-commit do it's thing, but takes over the dependency management. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise

  Pretty sad to see almost verbatim copy of https://secretspec.dev :) I'm glad mise is catching up on https://devenv.sh features though. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Mise: Monorepo Tasks

  There's a tool that makes the Nix way a lot more approachable: https://devenv.sh/ e.g. `languages.rust.enable = true` and you're off to the races. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Easy development environments with Nix and Nix flakes!

  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... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

  I'd be interested in anybody who has tried https://devenv.sh/ and https://www.jetify.com/devbox and chosen one over the other. Tried devbox which has been good, but not devenv. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

  Did you try https://devenv.sh/? It uses Nix under the hood but with an improved DX experience. I haven't used it myself personally since I find Nix good enough but I am curious if you would still choose mise over devenv. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Flox, a better alternative to Dev Containers

  Https://devenv.sh/ and Dev Containers are not the same thing. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• An Introduction to Nix for Ruby Developers

  Devenv.sh merits exploration too. It is something of a hybrid, with a JSON-like programming language, YAML configuration, and Docker-like composition of services. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

  We've been building https://devenv.sh for that reason, I expect more companies to go back to local development once they see DX has improved locally. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix

  It would be bring less complexity using https://devenv.sh/ to provide the tooling :-). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv

  It looks quite smaller in scope than devenv (https://devenv.sh/). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Python Has Too Many Package Managers

  If you haven't yet, check out https://devenv.sh. It's pretty nice for python packages and installs your requirements to a project local venv for you via whatever tool you want (pip, poetry, uv etc). I've been using it for a couple of years and it's super nice to be able to manage both python and "native" dependencies, and other non-python development tools all together. I used just nix and whatever python packages... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: Is_ready – Wait for many services to become available – 0 Dependencies

  It works on MacOS/Windows, unlike systemd. Therefore it's well suited for development environment setups for polyglot teams. https://devenv.sh/ is one example that uses it to do just that. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments

  Sounds like nix using devenv[1] also would solve this problem. https://devenv.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Nix – A One Pager

  Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software

  Https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What's the Next Vagrant?

  2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc). I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:

    - https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work).

  - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?

  Yup, I haven’t tried it but there is https://devenv.sh which is built on top of nix and makes it simple. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?

  It would be a smoother transition for most I imagine to use nix via https://devenv.sh/ even if only for it's excellent documentation. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

  Although Guix reads better than Nix (after all, it's Lisp), I found the support and resources available for learning severely lacking. Plus, you have to jump through hoops to install non-free software, which goes against the ethos of Guix anyway. IMHO, Nix is clearly "the winner" here and we'll see more and more adoption as it improves. Lots of folks are doing exciting work (see https://determinate.systems/,... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago