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webbureaucrat

The articles are just window-dressing for code snippets I want to keep.

Tagged “nodejs”

  1. Finding a Successful Build of NodeJS in Nixpkgs

    javascript nix nodejs

    My latest irritation has been using NodeJS with Nix. Unfortunately, I've had a few unfortunate draws pulling versions of nixpkgs that build the entire NodeJS V8 runtime from source. It's been a pain and I would like to not go through that any more, so I am documenting the steps to avoid it.

  2. Building a Directory with buildNpmPackage in a Nix Derivation

    eleventy javascript nix nodejs npm

    Candidly, I'm very surprised it seems like no one has written this article yet, but I looked and it seems like no one has. The question I set out to answer is how to use a Nix derivation to build an npm package where the build product is not a single "bin" executable file but rather a directory.

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