Developer environments you can take with you

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Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you
create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where
it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle

Install packages from the biggest open source repository
(nixpkgs) that contains more that 80.000 packages.

With flox you can:

→ Create environments

→ Share your environments with others

→ Build container images

→ ... and much more

⚡️ Quick start

$ flox init           # <- Create an environment in current directory ✨ .

$ flox search hello   # <- Search for a package 🚀.

$ flox install hello  # <- Install packages into current directory's environment 🔨.

$ flox activate       # <- Enter the current directory's environment 🎆.

flox [my-project] $ hello   # <- Have fun 🎉.
Hello world!

flox [my-project] $ exit    # <- Exit environment 💃.

❓ Why

We all build software on top of a dynamic set of tools,
frameworks and packages, allowing us to move quickly and only
build what’s necessary. However, each new wave of dev tooling
innovation results in an entirely new set of dependencies that
need to be managed. What starts as a simple app or microservice
quickly grows complex, and
turns into a expanding and fragmented supply
chain. Flox brings reproducibility and consistency to complex
software development lifecycles.

📘 Origins

Flox began its life during the deployment of Nix at
the D. E. Shaw group, where it quickly proved invaluable
by making Nix easier for newcomers and offering centralized
control over packages. As a result, their successful project
became one of the largest, most impactful enterprise deployments
of Nix.

📫 Have a question? Want to chat? Ran into a problem?

We are happy to welcome you to our Discourse forum and answer your
questions! You can always reach out to us directly via the Flox twitter
account or chat to us directly on Slack or
Discord.

🤝 Found a bug? Missing a specific feature?

Feel free to file a new issue with a respective title and
description on the the flox/flox repository. If you already found a solution
to your problem, we would love to review your pull request!

⭐️ Contribute

We welcome contributions to this project. Please read the Contributor
guide first.

🪪 License

The Flox CLI is licensed under the GPLv2. See LICENSE.