Announcing `js2nix` - scale your Node.js project builds with Nix

[terlar]

It would be nice to have a comparison to:

• GitHub - serokell/nix-npm-buildpackage: Build nix packages that use npm/yarn
• GitHub - nix-community/npmlock2nix: nixify npm based packages [maintainer=@andir]

Hopefully at some point all the nodejs efforts could be consolidated. I’m not sure how the current implementations differ (js2nix and dream2nix, nix-npm-buildpackage, npmlock2nix).

There were some discussions here a while back:

Node_modules.nix

Hi guys I just created a proof-of-concept nix library called “node_modules.nix”. It also aims at packaging Node.js applications with Nix like node2nix, yarn2nix or pnpm2nix. Like pnpm2nix it’s just a nix-library and not a tool that needs to be run everytime you change your package.json file. But it works directly with NPM. Check it out here: GitHub - VanCoding/node_modules.nix: A nix library to turn your package-lock.json into a fully populated node_modules directory I’d be interested in some…