Setup mac os for development with nix-darwn and home-manager

Setting up your macos for development with Nix (nix-darwin)

Setup

• Install nix if you are using MacOs

  1. sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume --daemon Or go through your https://nix.dev/tutorials/install-nix to find your OS.

• Install nix-darwin and setup

  1. https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

• Home Manager provides a module that allows you to prepare user environments directly from the nix-darwin configuration file.

  1. Execute these in order.
     1. nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
     2. nix-channel --update

If you need more info on how to configure home-manager with nix-darwin https://rycee.gitlab.io/home-manager/index.html#sec-install-nix-darwin-module

Lsp

• Default setup uses nvim-lspconfig with autocompleteion nvim-comp,

• To setup nvim with coc change on neovim.nix this

    #LSP choices
    #coc-nvim
    nvim-lspconfig
  
  

  to

   #LSP choices
   coc-nvim
   #nvim-lspconfig
  
  

  copy nvim-config/coc-settings.json to ~/.config/nvim/

  OR type

  :CocConfig and paste the contents of you coc-settings.json

Building

• To build the configuration run darwin-rebuild switch