Opinionated Nix repository template

Based on nix.dev tutorials, repository template to get you started with Nix:

• niv for painless dependency management (aka pinning) with a daily cronjob to bump dependencies
• gitignore.nix for respecting .gitignore when using your project as a source
• pre-commit-hooks.nix for running linters (defaults to shellcheck, nix-linter and nixpkgs-fmt) when committing and on the CI
• direnv for automatically loading your developer environment
• GitHub Actions for CI with dependabot automatically bumping GitHub Actions versions

Getting started

1. Follow tutorial for creating a binary cache
2. Replace nix-getting-started-template in .github/workflows/test.yml with the name of your binary cache

Using the project

Follow direnv setup and run direnv allow