opentrons-nix

How to setup a dev environment for Opentrons using nix

The DEV_SETUP.md for opentrons is quite complicated, with many manual steps, especially if someone only wants to work on part of opentrons. This repo shows you how to create a development environment with nix-shell as an alternative.

1. download the file shell.nix
2. Install Nix (or use Nix docker)
   1. To use docker, install docker, then run $ docker run -it -p 8080:8080 -v $(pwd)/:/workdir nixos/nix from within the opentrons mono-repo
3. run $ cd workdir then $ nix-shell
4. done!

Now that the development environment is ready, you can run

$ make setup to download and compile dependencies

$ cd protocol-designer; make dev to start hacking on the protocol designer (for example)

See more

• https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-docker
• https://nixos.org/guides/declarative-and-reproducible-developer-environments.html
• https://dev.to/edbentley/nix-for-frontend-developers-64g