Automatic typst dependency extraction through typst2nix

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This is a personal tool built on top of existing nixpkgs.typstPackages infrastructure. Nothing fancy. The main difference of it from typix and other projects is that

  • It does automatic dependency resolution for your typst project by going through all your typst source code line by line, use regex to figure out the package you imported.
  • And for building, it will recursively collect all dependencies (including transitive dependencies) of your project and build it using typst.withPackages infrastructure also standardized in nixpkgs.
  • It’s simple.

The whole setup is pretty simple, contained in a single flake.nix file. And you can build doc like this:

  self.helpers.buildTypstDoc rec {                                  
    inherit pkgs;                                                   
    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {                                    
      owner = "tingerrr";                                           
      repo = "anti-matter";                                         
      rev = "v${version}";                                          
      hash = "sha256-J1ByutA/0ciP4/Q1N6ZJ71YNZpOH4XjxsD0+7DHl69M="; 
    };                                                              
    main = "./docs/manual.typ";                                     
    version = "0.1.1";                                              
    pname = "anti-matter-manual";                                   
  }

and it will build the doc while handling all dependencies for you automatically:

$ nix build .\#anti-matter-manual
trace: [typst2nix] extracted dependency typst-package-tidy-0.1.0 from source
trace: [typst2nix] extracted dependency typst-package-hydra-0.2.0 from source
trace: [typst2nix] found typst-package-hydra-0.2.0 depends on typst-package-oxifmt-0.2.0
trace: [typst2nix] extracted dependency typst-package-oxifmt-0.2.0 from source

See further details in my repo GitHub - LEXUGE/typst2nix: Package Management and Tooling for Typst implemented in Nix

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