Adding Devenv with Built-in Direnv Compatibility

[niksingh710]

The current repository seems to focus solely on activating direnv. While direnv is great, I’d like to suggest leveraging devenv as well. It's a powerful utility that simplifies the creation and management of development environments.

Here are some relevant resources:

• Devenv Official Site: https://devenv.sh/
• Direnv Compatibility: https://devenv.sh/automatic-shell-activation/

By integrating devenv, we can create multiple Nix flake templates tailored for common project startups. This would enable developers to quickly set up projects with pre-configured devenv environments, making it much easier to get started on Nix.

For example:

• Python projects with poetry
• Rust projects with cargo
• And more

This approach would streamline the process of setting up development environments for a wide range of use cases.

• TODO: Add documentation to [NixOS Asia's Direnv Wiki Page](https://nixos.asia/en/direnv).

What are your thoughts on moving forward with this idea?

[srid]

I'm not really sure what you are proposing. This repo is a template for NixOS, nix-darwin and home-manager primarily. It includes some useful tools & services, of which direnv is just one.

[srid]

This approach would streamline the process of setting up development environments for a wide range of use cases.

Regarding this, that is the goal of https://omnix.page/om/init.html

[niksingh710]

I was not aware with the omnix.page, will explore it now.

[niksingh710]

I'm not really sure what you are proposing. This repo is a template for NixOS, nix-darwin and home-manager primarily. It includes some useful tools & services, of which direnv is just one.

I meant to have devenv and templates based on devenv for quick initialization of development project directories. It also utilizes direnv under the hood to invoke the shell when entering a directory. In short, I meant to add the tool to the template as it seems to be a superset of direnv :).