trashposs/docs/nix-development.md

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Nix Dev Environment

The TrashPoss repo comes with a Nix-based shell environment to help make development as easy as possible!

Please note, however, that this environment will not work on Windows outside of a WSL2 environment.

Prerequisites

• Installed the Nix Package Manager (use the comman on their website)
• Installed direnv and added its hook to your shell. (package manager)
• Ensured all dependencies are pulled with git-lfs, which also needs to be installed.

Once the repo is cloned to your computer, follow these next few steps inside the TrashPoss folder:

• Run direnv allow. This will build the environment and install all needed tools.
• Run install-deps, then prepare-config, to install the node dependencies and prepare the needed config files.
• In a second terminal, run devenv up. This will spawn a Redis server, a Postgres server, and the TrashPoss server in dev mode.
• Once you see the TrashPoss banner printed in your second terminal, run migrate in the first.
• Once migrations finish, open http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.
• You should now see the admin user creation screen!

Note: When you want to restart a dev server, all you need to do is run devenv up, no other steps are necessary.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

if devenv up terminates because of wrong folder permissions,

create the file /etc/wsl.conf in your distro and add

[automount]
options = "metadata"

this allows chmod calls to actually have an effect. the build scripts DO actually set the permissions, it just needs to work in wsl.

Problems with the environment

We don't anticipate any problems with the environment, as it is kept stable and does not require much maintainence.

Nevertheless, if you do encounter nix-specific problems and are unable to solve these problems yourself, please join the Matrix support Channel and ping @Pyrox with the specific error message you encounter.