diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index dfb9717..9a48994 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -9,25 +9,50 @@ RUN useradd --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID --shell /bin/bash --create-home deve
 
 # Install sudo first
 RUN apt-get update
-RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends sudo
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates curl git git-restore-mtime sudo xz-utils
 
 # No Sudo Prompt - thanks Electron for this
 RUN echo 'developer ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers.d/developer
 RUN echo 'Defaults    env_keep += "DEBIAN_FRONTEND"' >> /etc/sudoers.d/env_keep
 
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=1
-ENV PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH
 
 # Copy scripts and make them executable by both root and developer
 COPY --chown=root:developer --chmod=0755 ./scripts/ /home/developer/scripts/
-RUN /home/developer/scripts/install.sh
-RUN /home/developer/scripts/ccache.sh
 
 USER developer
 RUN /home/developer/scripts/clone.sh
+
+# Installing Nix and Cachix
+RUN curl -L "https://github.com/$(sed -nE 's#.*(cachix/install-nix-action)@([a-f0-9]+).*#\1/raw/\2#p' /home/developer/nodejs/node/.github/workflows/test-shared.yml)/install-nix.sh" | \
+      USER=developer \
+      INPUT_SET_AS_TRUSTED_USER=true \
+      INPUT_ENABLE_KVM=true \
+      INPUT_EXTRA_NIX_CONFIG= \
+      INPUT_INSTALL_OPTIONS= \
+      RUNNER_TEMP=$(mktemp -d) GITHUB_ENV=/dev/null GITHUB_PATH=/dev/null bash
+ENV NIX_PROFILES="/nix/var/nix/profiles/default /home/developer/.nix-profile"
+ENV NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
+ENV PATH="/home/developer/.local/bin:/home/developer/.nix-profile/bin:${PATH}"
+RUN nix-env -iA cachix -f https://cachix.org/api/v1/install
+RUN USER=developer cachix use nodejs
+
+# Installing direnv
+RUN nix profile add nixpkgs#nix-direnv nixpkgs#direnv -I nixpkgs=/home/developer/nodejs/node/tools/nix/pkgs.nix
+RUN mkdir -p /home/developer/.config/direnv && \
+    echo 'source $HOME/.nix-profile/share/nix-direnv/direnvrc' > /home/developer/.config/direnv/direnvrc
+RUN echo 'eval "$(direnv hook bash)"' >> /home/developer/.bashrc
+
+# Setting up direnv for the local clone
+ARG USE_SHARED_LIBS=false
+RUN echo "use nix --impure -I nixpkgs=/home/developer/nodejs/node/tools/nix/pkgs.nix$([ "${USE_SHARED_LIBS}" = "true" ] || echo " --arg sharedLibDeps '{}' --argstr icu full")" > /home/developer/nodejs/node/.envrc
+RUN direnv allow /home/developer/nodejs/node
+
 RUN /home/developer/scripts/build.sh
 
-ENV PATH=/home/developer/.local/bin:$PATH
 WORKDIR /home/developer/nodejs/node
 RUN /home/developer/scripts/install-node.sh
 RUN /home/developer/scripts/ncu.sh
+
+# direnv will automatically load the nix environment when entering the directory
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-l"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c6f7316..993247c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Do this from your local system, not in the container. The `git` configuration wi
 Some useful commands:
 - `docker build .` - build the current Dockerfile
 - `docker image ls` - list the images and IDs
-- `docker run -it <image id> /bin/bash` - run a container and shell into it
+- `docker run -it <image id>` - run a container and shell into it
 - `docker tag <image id> devcontainer:nightly` - run to tag an image as `nightly`
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index 11e0a15..09a94b8 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
+set -xe
 
-/home/developer/nodejs/node/configure --ninja && make -C /home/developer/nodejs/node
+cd /home/developer/nodejs/node
+eval "$(direnv export bash)"
+
+make -C /home/developer/nodejs/node build-ci
diff --git a/scripts/ccache.sh b/scripts/ccache.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c009c28..0000000
--- a/scripts/ccache.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
-
-# create symlinks
-/usr/sbin/update-ccache-symlinks
diff --git a/scripts/clone.sh b/scripts/clone.sh
index ea16c68..53d59dc 100755
--- a/scripts/clone.sh
+++ b/scripts/clone.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
+set -xe
 
 mkdir -p /home/developer/nodejs
-cd /home/developer/nodejs
-git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git --single-branch --branch main --depth 1
-cd /home/developer/nodejs/node
-git remote add upstream https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
-git restore-mtime  # Restore file modification times to commit times for build cache to match.
+git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git --depth 1 /home/developer/nodejs/node
+(
+  cd /home/developer/nodejs/node
+  git remote add upstream https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
+  git restore-mtime  # Restore file modification times to commit times for build cache to match.
+)
diff --git a/scripts/install-node.sh b/scripts/install-node.sh
index 47f2d64..8042f8f 100755
--- a/scripts/install-node.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-node.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails
+set -xe
+
+cd /home/developer/nodejs/node
+eval "$(direnv export bash)"
 
 make install PREFIX=/home/developer/.local -C /home/developer/nodejs/node
-echo '' >> /home/developer/.bashrc
-echo 'export PATH=/home/developer/.local/bin:$PATH' >> /home/developer/.bashrc
+{
+    echo ''
+    # Expose the PATH generated by Nix + the recently built `node` installation
+    echo "export PATH=/home/developer/.local/bin:$PATH"
+ } >> /home/developer/.bashrc
diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4f30dde..0000000
--- a/scripts/install.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
-
-package_list="
-  build-essential \
-  ccache \
-  curl \
-  nano \
-  python3 \
-  python3-pip \
-  python-is-python3 \
-  ninja-build \
-  g++ \
-  gcc \
-  g++-12 \
-  gcc-12 \
-  make \
-  git \
-  pkg-config \
-  locales \
-  gpg \
-  wget \
-  git-restore-mtime"
-
-# Install Packages
-apt-get update
-DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $package_list
-
-# set up GitHub CLI resistry stuff to get gh CLI
-curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
-echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
-gh_package_list="gh"
-apt-get update
-DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $gh_package_list
diff --git a/scripts/ncu.sh b/scripts/ncu.sh
index 0612251..70c267f 100755
--- a/scripts/ncu.sh
+++ b/scripts/ncu.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
+set -xe
 
-npm install -g @node-core/utils
+cd /home/developer/nodejs/node
+eval "$(direnv export bash)"
 
 ncu-config set upstream upstream
 ncu-config set branch main
diff --git a/scripts/setup-origin.sh b/scripts/setup-origin.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c990016..0000000
--- a/scripts/setup-origin.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e # Exit with nonzero exit code if anything fails 
-
-if [[ -z "${ORIGIN_URL}" ]]
-then
-    echo "ORIGIN_URL is not set"
-else
-  git remote set-url origin ${ORIGIN_URL}
-fi