Nix - Flakes for out-of-tree code

Describe how to use flakes in your own repository.

Go over the motivation, creation, and usage of a flake.

[BradleyADavis]

New Nixer here and your videos are an INVALUABLE resource for learning and understanding this ecosystem. Thank you!

[SEKUNHO]

Flakes are fantastic. It definitely lowered the learning curve of Nix by a smidge.

[Aktnik]

Thank you so much for your guide, Jon! I was finally able to set up flakes on my Python project. I had to check your repo to understand a little more of the composition of the files you have at the nix directory.

Something that I would think it would be great is having a similar guide like this, about migrating your project with the basic shell.nix and default.nix structure into flakes, but written in a blog/website, just to have it as a reference.

[bew]

Nice explanation!
If you're using zsh, you can put in your config something like: `zstyle ignored-patterns '*.lock'`
To avoid having the `flake.lock` completion, and typing `vim flaTAB` gives your the flake.nix file directly :)

[raghurammailbox]

Thank you for another great video. Very practical and useful.

[e]

Great video thanks. You might want to zoom in a bit. Watching on mobile is hard to follow.

[Nessdoor]

POV: you're jonringer browsing Discourse

Can't wait to have this in stable, my server configs already kinda depend on it and it's making me a little uneasy