Hi all, I鈥檝e been getting into nix lately (I鈥檝e been posting here frequently) and wanted to know what projects everyone is working on. Are you trying to integrate nix into an existing project? Contribute to nixpkgs? Experiment with your configs?
I鈥檓 working on a dApp that uses Haskell Servant or Purescript鈥檚 Httpurple (haven鈥檛 really settled on one yet though I imagine Haskell currently is my preference since it will have more capability for a back end) as backend and Purescript鈥檚 Halogen as the front end. I am in WAY over my head but learning a ton. purs-nix and hix and the work shared by Lovelace Academy are going to be major parts of why this will actually work in the end.
Progress is here if anyone has any pointers. I am getting stuck on some fairly newbish issues but the flake I am building that glues the project together has some nice features. I had originally been planning to use default.nix files in the folders of each component but it looks like a flake in each directory would work better.
I鈥檝e also been working on making a flake for the WASM-4 retro console . They had a game jam some time ago that I made a game for, and I thought it鈥檇 be cool to package the game with nix. Of course, I first had to wrap the build tool in a flake, and now I鈥檓 working on a devshell to build my game. I suspect I鈥檒l have to expand more packages on the wasm4 flake, since theres runtimes and other binaries too.
I鈥檝e started writing a NixOS config to replace the Ubuntu install that I currently have on my server. I鈥檓 starting to question if it makes sense though, since the Nextcloud Snap is very convenient (it even includes a backup/restore script) and I don鈥檛 know if I鈥檒l be able to easily replicate all of that easily using the NixOS module.
I run my nextcloud using docker, which could be another option. I鈥檝e also heard of Nextcloud All in One (AIO) which might be useful as well. Neither are nix solutions, but could be as convenient as the snap.
I have it in nix and use the postrgesql backup config + borg in nixos to move the database and files on another host for backups. I would say it is not too complicated as long as you dont want to have it fully declarative (i sill manage users and apps in nextcloud itself).
I鈥檝e been slowly expanding my home manager configuration to consume more and more of my existing dotfiles and programs. Whats awesome is how short it鈥檚 taken me to say, convert my neovim config over. It was small anyway, since I never jumped into nvim configuration. But since nix made it so easy to add on plugins, I鈥檝e been having a lot of fun and it鈥檚 been easy to iterate upon.
Eventually I鈥檓 going to have to break out my config between my two systems, since I鈥檓 starting to install some beefier creative GUI utilities (gimp, blender, inkscape) on my laptop, which I don鈥檛 do (or want to do) that creative work on.
I鈥檓 going down the home-manager rabbithole right now. It鈥檚 super interesting and different from other linux projects. I love the flexibility it offers, for example, my nvim config is quite large and hard to port over, so I鈥檓 just including it with home.files.
My dots are here if you鈥檙e interested
Looks like you have a good start. Being to manage existing files with home.file makes it so easy go jump on board. I also love being able to define my own file structure and home manager takes care of the rest. Keep me updated on how this progresses!