diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5fbb8d966a..54b5fdfa24 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 **/.psa*
 **/.spago
 **/.spago2nix*
+.projectile
 result
 result-*
 .envrc
@@ -17,3 +18,4 @@ result-*
 **/node_modules/
 .node
 .node-cfg
+server/dist-newstyle
diff --git a/server/cardano-browser-tx-server.cabal b/server/cardano-browser-tx-server.cabal
index 60ff05a43d..88fa36303c 100644
--- a/server/cardano-browser-tx-server.cabal
+++ b/server/cardano-browser-tx-server.cabal
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ executable cardano-browser-tx-server
   ghc-options:
     -Wall -Wcompat -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wredundant-constraints
     -Wmissing-export-lists -Wmissing-deriving-strategies
-
-  hs-source-dirs:   src/
+  hs-source-dirs: src
+  main-is: Main.hs
   build-depends:
     , aeson
     , base
diff --git a/server/shell.nix b/server/shell.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d2a254448
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+let
+  system = builtins.currentSystem;
+  lock = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ../flake.lock);
+in
+(
+  import
+    (
+      fetchTarball {
+        url = "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/${lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.rev}.tar.gz";
+        sha256 = lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.narHash;
+      }
+    )
+    {
+      src = ./..;
+    }
+).defaultNix.hsDevShell.${system}