qornflakes

My personnal collection of frequent Nix Flakes

nix flake show

$ nix flake show github:GuilloteauQ/qornflakes

├───packages
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       ├───cc-flake-test: package 'cookiecutter-template-flake-test'
│       ├───cc-python: package 'cookiecutter-template-python'
│       ├───shell-R: package 'R'
│       ├───shell-julia: package 'julia'
│       ├───shell-lua: package 'lua'
│       └───shell-python: package 'python'
└───templates
    ├───C: template: a simple C template
    ├───R: template: R and friends
    ├───Rmd: template: a RMarkdown template
    ├───md: template: a Markdown + Pandoc template
    └───python: template: a Python3.8 template

There are two types of templates:

• Usual Nix Flakes templates

• Templates using cookiecutter

Use a Nix template

To create a new folder (my_python_project in the example) with the template:

$ nix flake new -t github:GuilloteauQ/qornflakes#python my_python_project

To initialize the current folder:

$ nix flake init -t github:GuilloteauQ/qornflakes#python

Use a CookieCutter template

Under the hood we are running a shell expression to call cookiecutter and this cannot be a simple template from the point of vue of Nix.

Thus for those templates, the syntax is a bit different:

$ nix run github:GuilloteauQ/qornflakes#cc-python

and you will be prompted with the cookiecutter interface.

Register these flakes

$ nix registry add qorn github:GuilloteauQ/qornflakes

Check if it is in the list:

$ nix registry list

We can now use it as simply as:

$ nix flake new -t qorn#python plop