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Using Nix

Nix

Nix is a package manager that goes beyond traditional ones (like Apt, NPM, Brew, etc.) as it allows:

• full reproducibility (the same input guarantee to give exactly the same output)
• "local" packages, meaning you don't need to install globally
• describe in a Nix file everything you need to build or run an application, and Nix configures everything locally:
  • language dependencies like JDK 14 or GHC 8.10.7
  • build systems like Maven or Stack
  • system dependencies like Zlib or PostgreSQL
  • environment variables
  • etc.

You can find a high-level explanation of the different Nix files in my Nix article

Run the project

# Build the `site.hs` module
$ stack build
# Generate the blog
$ stack exec site build
# Run the blog locally (localhost:8000) and generate it at each change
$ stack exec site watch