Earlier this month I mentioned on Mastodon that I was replacing a Docker-based local development environment at my day job with a Nix-based one, orchestrated with overmind and a justfile. There was quite a lot of interest in particular in how overmind and just could be used to replace a container / compose-based local development. While I can’t share the details of the significantly more complex migration I did at my day job (yet!

Some folks on the internet were interested in how I had managed to ditch Docker for local development. This is a slightly overdue write up on how I typically do things now with Nix, Overmind and Just.

  • @gdrhnvfhjEnglish
    9•11 months ago

    Try to develop on a system that just has node16 3 different projects at the same time that each require different node versions. Nix rocks.

      • @gdrhnvfhjEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        And now these need different GCC compilers. And building should be easy and reproducible.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•11 months ago

          If your app behaves differently based on the GCC version the same node version has been compiled, there’s a fuck-up in there.

          • @gdrhnvfhjEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            No, I mean my app has a node and an C part, just AS an example. Could also be Java vor PHP.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•11 months ago

              ahh, I see. I guess you had to do a bit more work to ensure everything builds with the same versions.