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Helps static file/configuration creation with Nix and devshell.

There is a bunch of ways static file/configuration are hard, this will help you generate, validate and distribute JSON, YAML, TOML or TXT.

Generate

Your content will be defined in Nix Language, it means you can use variables, functions, imports, read files, etc.

The modular system helps layering configurations, hiding complexity and making it easier for OPS teams.

Validate

Your content modules could optionally be well defined and type checked in build proccess with this same tool.

Or you could use Nix as package manager and install any tool to validate your configuration (ie integrating it with existing JSON Schema).

Distribute

Nix integrates well with git and http, it could be also used to read JSON, YAML, TOML, zip and gz files.

In fact Nix isn't a configuration tool but a package manger, we are only using it as configuration tool because the language is simple and flexible.

You can recreate files of a repository directly to your local machine by running nix develop <flake-uri> --build, example:

# copy all my dogfood to your current folder
nix develop github:cruel-intentions/devshell-files --build

With help of Nix and devshell you could install any development or deployment tool of its 80 000 packages.