Welcome to Sijin’s NIX notes

This page contains the notes on Sijin’s learning curve around nix

Note

This project is under active development.

Contents

• Basics
  • Install nix
  • Use nix
  • Reference
• Understand the nix derivation
  • Nix Derivation
    • Build the package with nix-build
    • Build the package with nix-shell (manually)
    • Create a generic environment with nix-shell
• Build my first package
  • Create the derivation script
  • Build the package
  • Run the package
• Project managment
  • A basic project setup
  • A customized setup
• Nix Flakes
  • What is Nix Flake
  • Create your first flake