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
      3·
      2 years ago

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

      • sip@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        2 years 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·
          2 years ago

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

          • sip@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

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