Nix Flake architecture in practice

Getting into Nix & Nix flakes can be a challenge. You may have have heard of Nix's fame for reproducibility or Nix flake's composability, but weren't sure where or how to start. While some folks seem to settle for a devShell when it comes to Nix, going just a bit deeper, Nix can fulfill more project architecture requirements than merely delivering tooling. In this post we will follow journey of requirements from environment setup, to building, testing, & distributing a Hello World" Vim plugin as the guide for learning the Nix flakes's API.

One day, when my kids moved out, I'll dive into NixOS.