nxo

nxo is a command line utility to bootstrap simple configuration for nix. It provides syntactic sugar and sane defaults to get you up and running with nix as quickly as possible.

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Installation

Before installing nxo you'll need;

• nix
• direnv

The easiest way to install is to download the binary:

curl -L https://github.com/almonk/nxo/releases/download/v0.0.4/nxo_darwin_arm64 --output /tmp/nxo && chmod +x /tmp/nxo && sudo mv /tmp/nxo /usr/local/bin

Be sure to swap nxo_darwin_arm64 for nxo_darwin_amd64 if you are using an Intel Mac.

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Usage

Setup a project with ruby and go dependencies:

$ nxo install ruby go

Let's add sqlite to this project as well. Simply run nxo install again:

$ nxo i sqlite # `nxo i` is a shortcut for install

nxo will generate the shell.nix below;

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}
}:

pkgs.mkShell {
  buildInputs = [
    pkgs.ruby
    pkgs.go
    pkgs.sqlite
  ];
}

To wipe nix config:

$ nxo clean

or

$ nxo c

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Uninstallation

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/nxo

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Build from source

To build nxo from source locally:

$ git clone [this repo]
$ make release