Nix, Home Manager, and Flake

Getting started with nix and home manager

With help of nix, flake, home-manager and nix-direnv. We can have almost reproducible dev environments per each directory. This allows us to easily switch between slightly different dev environment configurations without needing docker or virtual machine.

Nix home-manager allows you to control your user environment using nix, providing a declarative approach to managing your dotfiles and system configuration. However, it's worth noting that you don't have to use nix for everything.

We are going to create further hierarchy on both home-manager configurations and shell configurations so that we can separate common configuration out of user specific configurations. This allows us to maintain set of common setup, without compromising user customization.