Get Comfy with Nix (3 easy debug techniques)
I found Nix a bit hard to use at first. When I created the previous batch of videos about building/distributing applications in Nix, I found the following 3 techniques to be very helpful in diving into the details and getting Nix to do what I actually wanted.
Slides for this video are in pure React! More on how I did this soon - I'd love to turn this into a framework like Sli.dev so that others can use this technique too.
Article/code/slides for this video: https://github.com/pagekey/education/tree/main/182-Nix-Debugging-Strategies
Timestamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:16 PageKey: Take Back Tech
- 0:46 On the slides (React w/o Framework)
- 1:03 Overview
- 1:12 (1) nix-repl
- 2:34 (2) Using default.nix
- 3:10 (3) Clearing Cache with Precision