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(How) do you automate setting up your local development environment? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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In a lot of projects, this is usually done via README. It tells you what running dependencies to install and how to run certain commands.

This can get harder to maintain as things change, the project grows, and complexity increases.

I see two parts to automate here: actually setting up the environment, and running the application or orchestrating multiple apps.

How do you address this?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
  • direnv
  • nixpkgs (with flakes enabled)
  • committed flake.nix and flake.lock
  • Makefile or several shell scripts in bin/ for common tasks

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