How to create a reproducible development environment?

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Hi,

I want to have a reproducible development environment using flakes for one of my projects, however I use a heavy IDE and I assume every developer would like to use their own. The same happens with a git pre-commit hook that I use, I assume other devs don’t want to execute my bash script in their machines or, they want to have their own pre-commit script.

The question is: how can I have a flake that allow me to have all what I want while other devs can have the minimum set of things when running nix develop? What is the best practice for scenarios like this?

Thank you in advance.

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You could set up multiple devShells in one flake. Then each developer can run the shell appropriate for them.

I don’t know if it is the best practice, but it is the first idea that came to my mind. :smile:

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That’s indeed the way to go.

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A personal pre-commit hook dont’ make too much sense to me.
However an option would be to source an additional script if it exists.
So you could have a general pre-commit hook and if a personal-pre-commit exists that gets executed as well.
At least I think that will work, I haven’t tested it, but we basically use this mechanism to provide an escape hatch for the .bashrc file which we provide but the users can provide extension in a specific directory.