devenv Declarative Developer Environments with Nix

A fast, declarative, and reproducible developer environment tool built on Nix. devenv lets teams define project dependencies, services, scripts, and language toolchains in a single configuration file, ensuring consistent environments across machines.

Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• OCI containers built from your environment without Docker

• python-app = config.languages.python.import ./python-app {};

• --option languages.python.version:string 3.10

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Running devenv init generates devenv.nix:

• nix

• { pkgs, lib, config, inputs, ... }:

• Source: https://github.com/cachix/devenv

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cachix/devenv/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange