I’m planning to resume an old project i left incomplete back two months ago, at that time i was using archlinux so the procedure i follow to setup my environment:
# Create a new folder for the project
mkdir -p "~/dev/flask-project"
# Create a new virtual env (Pynthon already comes with arch)
python -m venv .env
pip install flask flask-mongoengine
# For this project i would need mongodb, so let's install it
sudo pacman -S mongodb
# Run the mongodb server
systemctl start --user mongodb
# Export variables to run the app
export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
Which is the nix equivalent of this? i’ve heard about creating a shell.nix file for compiling procedures regarding rust, but for this case how to can i setup a simple environment which can contain my configs without messing with my home folder or the system packages?