Nix Flakes - An Overview

Not sure what a Nix Flake is? You're in the right place! In this video we take a look at the problems that Nix Flakes solve and how to get started using them.

For more detailed information, I recommend reading through this page on the NixOS Wiki:

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[jakehamiltondev]

Corrections:

- The command "nix check" should instead be "nix flake check". The former is incorrect and does not exist. I probably confused it with my aliased helper. Oops!

[vimjoyer]

Now this is the best flakes explanation on the internet 👑

[Westtixy]

Cleanest explanation of flake out there !

[archieatkinson]

Glad to see your making videos again, your earlier Nix videos really helped me

[karthikeyanbalasubramanian]

can you make a video on nix dev for actual development and packaging end to end

[EnmanuelRivera]

What do you use to create these animations?

[juca]

snowfall-lib works for nixos and home-manager separated too? and modules for old and new gpu with nixgl? deploy-rs deploys only home-manager too? Sry to ask you this questions, but i like how snofall-lib handle things, and im up to build my own configs .

[anasouardini]

When is the Nix language going to have a CLI interface like other languages or at least be more versatile like other config languages:
- e.g: `node -e "console.log('lksdjf');"
- e.g: JSON can be read and modified by almost any language out there, even BASH can use tools like `jq` to manipulate JSON.
Why do I have to keep string-manipulating NixOS config files just to do some automation?