Earlier this month I mentioned on Mastodon that I was replacing a Docker-based local development environment at my day job with a Nix-based one, orchestrated with overmind and a justfile. There was quite a lot of interest in particular in how overmind and just could be used to replace a container / compose-based local development. While I can’t share the details of the significantly more complex migration I did at my day job (yet!

Some folks on the internet were interested in how I had managed to ditch Docker for local development. This is a slightly overdue write up on how I typically do things now with Nix, Overmind and Just.

  • @astral_avocado
    1•11 months ago

    We were talking about software development and deployment in this thread, not necessarily how easy your desktop GUI is to use.

    • JBloodthorn
      1•11 months ago

      No shit. I’m saying the tools I had to make myself should come standard instead of wasting dev time on command line bullshit.