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Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

27 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 6 stories, 21 comments · first 2022-08-25 · latest 2026-10-24

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  1. I thought you are talking about https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox :D
    comment by guerra · 2025-09-30 · in Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments
  2. …a well-starred, corporate-backed, similar functionality, Nix-based product with the same name: https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox https://www.jetify.com/devbox
    comment by l___d__s · 2025-09-30 · in Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments
  3. I've used Devbox by Jetify for two years. Never looked back. https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox
    comment by mootoday · 2025-02-16 · in Devenv Telemetry Warning
  4. …all I'm left with is "why?". I use Devbox[1] and get access to the entire Nix ecosystem, done. [1] https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox
    comment by mootoday · 2024-12-08 · in Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
  5. There's also [devbox]( https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox ). Tried a lot of them, and after a while I found the nix the package manager on non NixOS requires too many workarounds. Things don't just work. For example, installing alacritty…
    comment by mmgutz · 2024-06-03 · in Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager
  6. How does Flox compare to Devbox? https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
    comment by codethief · 2024-03-13 · in Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
  7. I've spent the last year managing all my packages with Devbox ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox ). Local dev, cloud dev, CI, production – all with the same config file. Fingers crossed my talk submission for PackagingCon gets…
    comment by mikenikles · 2023-08-09 · in PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management
  8. …Have you checked out any of the tools that aim to simplify Nix experience? We built Devbox ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox ) with this in mind.
    comment by mohsenari · 2023-07-10 · in NixOS and my descent into insanity
  9. …dev environments first, with the exact same config a developer can then move to the cloud. See https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox for how this can be achieved and https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-clou... for my…
    comment by mikenikles · 2023-06-21 · in Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
  10. …you should check out Devbox! It simplifies the process of creating Nix-powered dev environments: https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
    comment by jljljl · 2023-06-16 · in Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
  11. ah, yeah, we have a cheeky workaround for this in Devbox ;-) https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/blob/main/internal/impl...
    comment by pushtheenvelope · 2023-06-16 · in Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
  12. …the usability of tools like Yarn or Brew with the reproducibility of Nix. You can check us out at https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
    comment by jljljl · 2023-03-17 · in Ask HN: Docker Alternatives?
  13. …package managers). We're open source and rapidly adding features, you can check us out on Github at https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
    comment by jljljl · 2023-03-16 · in Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
  14. checkout https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox > Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells for development it uses nix, and they just added `devbox global` > Devbox Global allows you to add packages to a…
    comment by footlooseboss · 2023-03-02 · in Some Notes on Using Nix
  15. Tools like Devbox: https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox are making this way easier. Devbox is powered by nix, but it hides all of the complexity and makes it easier to use.
    comment by dloreto · 2023-01-18 · in Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
  16. Depending on your use case, devbox ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox ) could be what you're looking for. It is powered by Nix, but abstracts the nix language away, so that you can use it like a "regular" package manager. Currently it…
    comment by dloreto · 2022-12-26 · in Setting up my new laptop: Nix style
  17. …interface that is an alternative to asdf, but uses Nix under the hood, you could check out Devbox ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox ). Our goal is to make spinning up per-project dev environments easy and approachable, without having…
    comment by jljljl · 2022-12-02 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
  18. How do you compare to Devbox? https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
    comment by methyl · 2022-11-14 · in Hello World: Devenv 0.1
  19. Another take: DevBox provides 60% of the features of Docker while being faster and simpler. https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox It provides filesystem isolation -- it uses Nix under the covers. This is great if you're a dev and don't want…
    comment by john-tells-all · 2022-11-09 · in What chroot taught me about containers
  20. This is shelling out to nix-shell ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/blob/97c19c370287e203bb... ) which means that it will only support bash AFAIK. I've seen a lot of discussions around using nix-shell for dev environments, but read…
    comment by x0rg · 2022-08-26 · in Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
  21. A nice porcelain for ad-hoc uses of good ol' `nix-shell`, it looks like: https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/blob/main/nix/nix.go#L3... The container export functionality is based on BuildKit via the plain `docker buildx` CLI:…
    comment by pxc · 2022-08-26 · in Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers