devenv Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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 / 2 days 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 / about 1 month 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 / about 1 month ago

• Flox, a better alternative to Dev Containers

  Https://devenv.sh/ and Dev Containers are not the same thing. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months 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 / 5 months 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 / 5 months 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 / 6 months ago

• Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv

  It looks quite smaller in scope than devenv (https://devenv.sh/). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months 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 / 6 months 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 / 9 months 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 / 9 months 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 / 10 months 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 / 10 months 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 / about 1 year 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 / about 1 year 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 / about 1 year 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 / about 1 year ago

• Development Environments with Guix, similar to devenv.sh

  This though, through the use of devenv.sh, which uses nix, as when I got into nix I though it was going to be easier to just make a development environment, not the case. Until I found devenv.sh, I could actually finally make good environments... It also has other features like containers and services, which also help me know that I can get the most of it if the time comes. Source: about 1 year ago

• Advice/Questions for making a full Nix setup: CI, macOS, Windows, NixOs, android, ios, Clion(IntelliJ)...

  It will be good idea to use devenv or devbox? Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Devenv vs. Devbox? (Nix Tooling)

  I've been getting into Nix/NixOS for the last couple months, and I keep seeing [devenv](https://devenv.sh) and [devbox](https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/) mentioned as good tools for local development. The main difference between them seems to be that devenv uses the Nix language and containers whereas devbox uses JSON and wraps `nix-shell`. There are probably more differences I'm missing. So far I've only found one... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Using Haskell with devenv.sh

  Here’s getting started with Haskell using devenv.sh:. Source: over 1 year ago