Added nix flake for local development

[norberttech]

Change Log

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• Nix - for local development environment

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Description

Reference: #1467

[norberttech]

Since I'm not very advanced with Nix I had to use some help from GitHub Copilot to put those together.

@Ocramius @drupol could I bother you to take a look and share some feedback? 🙏 (I don't know anyone else more experienced in nix 😅)
I have been using mostly nix shell so this is still new approach for me and just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.

Wasn't sure about github:numtide/flake-utils (I don't like dependencies) but seems to be pretty useful for reducing the amount of boilerplate code.

Also does any of you by any chance know if there is a way to use nix flakes on github actions? That would be pretty amazing to have all php/os dependencies the same between local and ci/cd environments.

This PR is not yet ready to be merged, it's missing documentation in /docs/contributing.md and some nicer shell, now it looks like shit:

[norberttech]

Also does any of you by any chance know if there is a way to use nix flakes on github actions? That would be pretty amazing to have all php/os dependencies the same between local and ci/cd environments.

https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-github-actions/ - seems to be possible and maybe not even that hard with those two actions

[drupol]

Let me check this out asap.

[drupol]

Looks like it works ☺️

[norberttech]

Looks like it works ☺️

like a charm! Now just need to go through all the new things you introduced and try to understand them 😁 Looks much better than was I had before, thank you!

[drupol]

Hit me if you're blocked, I'll do my best to help.

[norberttech]

Added starship configuration (that can be overwritten on a repo level)

[drupol]

Cool and fancy stuff, but 1GB for a development shell is way too big for me... but it's up to you.

❯ nix build .#devShells.x86_64-linux.default -o result
❯ ll result
lrwxrwxrwx - pol 12 fév 23:27 result -> /nix/store/gj0k7r4vi7aamlplgjkmr0b1prv0j6ba-nix-shell
❯ nix path-info -Sh ./result
/nix/store/gj0k7r4vi7aamlplgjkmr0b1prv0j6ba-nix-shell   1000.5 MiB

[norberttech]

oh I think its the other software I added, will take a look on the size later and remove few things, you are right, 1gb its a bit too much 😅 thanks!

[drupol]

With experience, the lesser the better when it comes to development shells.

[norberttech]

@drupol, are there any best practices around allowing developers to extend the development shell according to their needs? I'm going to remove that tooling as you recommended, but I wonder if there is a way to let people locally add stuff if they want without committing any changes.
Or maybe I should take a similar approach to what I did with starship.toml.dist?
Or maybe its best to keep it minimalistic, with only essential software and personal preferences should come from the operating system?

[norberttech]

heh after removing everything except php and those 4 extensions it's still 1Gb 😅 but I think I'm fine with that, it's not meant for all users, not even for most of the users