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Welcome to the direnv wiki!

The main website gives instructions on how to download and install direnv, and general documentation of the tool.

The wiki is for recipes and various integrations with other tools.

• Custom builds

Recipes

• OpenEmbedded - direnv usage example
• PS1 - setting the PS1 with direnv
• Postgresql - per project postgresql data
• Restrict direnv load - make direnv load less greedy. Resolves problems with TMUX_PANE and others
• Customizing cache location - Changing where direnv puts its cache
• Daemonize - Running processes in the background
• Quiet or Silence direnv - Making the output more subtle visually, or hiding it completely

Project layouts

• Erlang -
• Go -
• Haskell -
• Node -
• Perl -
• Php - PHPBrew
• Python - VirtualEnv and friends
• Ruby - RVM, Bundler and friends
• Zig

Editor integration

• Atom
• Emacs
• Sublime Text
• Vim - per-project vimrc config
• VSCode - Visual Studio Code

Tools integration

• 1Password
• Doppler - Universal Secrets Platform
• Docker Machine
• Drone - auto-install
• Git - direnv and git tips
• GitHubActions
• GNU Guix
• Helm - auto-install
• Homebrew
• Middleman - the ruby static site generator
• Nix
• Sops
• Terraform - auto-install
• Tmux - integration
• Tmux and Fish - automatic Tmux sessions
• ZeroInstall
• Ansible Vault

Projects using direnv

• gkubenv - Configure G Cloud & Kubernetes Environment Variables with direnv
• xonsh-direnv - direnv support for xonsh
• direnv-helpers - Detect & Install various developer tools based on your project layout. NVM (and install version from .nvmrc), Yarn, Meteor, Shopify Themekit, EnvKey, BigCommerce stencil-cli, npm install (if missing ~/node_modules)